Subject: Re: DVD Boot
To: Sridhar Ayengar <ploop@mindless.com>
From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/20/2005 21:53:34
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:43:33 -0500
"Sridhar Ayengar" <ploop@mindless.com> wrote:

> I have an extra SCSI DVD-ROM drive lying around and I was wondering if
> older machines (including PMAX) would have any trouble booting off of
> it.
Most old machines need 512 byte sector drives to boot. If your DVD-ROM
drive can be jumpered to 512 byte sector mode you should read:
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html
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