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Talk a little more about boot roms.

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Jordan K. Hubbard 1994-11-18 13:02:23 +00:00
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@ -274,10 +274,14 @@ Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes
the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
** Note: You cannot boot from the Soundblaster cards
as they have no on-board BIOS, which is necessary.
as they have no on-board BIOS, which is necessary for mapping
the boot device into the system BIOS I/O vectors.
They're perfectly usable for external tapes, CDROMs, etc,
however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
without a boot ROM.
without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which
is generally indicated by some sort of message when the system
is first powered up or reset. Check your system/board documentation
for more details.
[Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"]
Buslogic 545S & 545c
@ -523,4 +527,4 @@ hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
The FreeBSD Core Team
$Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.14 1994/11/18 01:12:13 jkh Exp $
$Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.15 1994/11/18 03:10:32 jkh Exp $