Subject: Re: Thinkpad boots from wd11a... should this get send-pr'd?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/28/1999 01:20:37
seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
> So, there's a line in .../i386/stand/biosboot/devopen.c that
> says
>
> if (unit >= 4) /* ??? */
> return (EUNIT);
>
> This is apparently Wrong; my Thinkpad boots (correctl!) from 'wd11a' if
> it's doing the floppy-on-CD thing.
>
> Anyone know what that code thought it was doing, or why it was there in
> the first place?
I dunno, but that could explain similar lossage I had on a Telenet
machine. I just nuked that code snippet.