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Re: [cobalt-developers] Can the RaQ boot from floppy or CD?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Can the RaQ boot from floppy or CD?
- From: "H.P. Stroebel" <hpstr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Nov 28 19:31:01 2000
- List-id: Mailing list for developers on Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
Tim Hockin schrieb:
> If you attach a SCSI device (such as a CD), you can boot from it using
> the ROM menu. This is also true of IDE devices, though there isn't any
> 'external' IDE. This applies, sadly, only to RaQ3 and higher and Qube3
> and higher.
Do you intend booting from the OS restore disk or booting from any
bootable disk ?
> If you need details, let's take this off the group. I'll be happy to
-> Developers list ?
> hear your scenario and try to find a workable solution for you.
Due to a recent crash that forced me to recover I am interested in this
issue, too. If you two take it off-list, would you mind dropping me a CC
? Thank you.
<bad grammar ?>
If I would have had (and would have known about) the possibility to boot
from a nice credit-card-emergency-cd and to mount the screwed-up hdd,
things would have been _much_ easier...
</bad grammar>
Regards,
--
H. P. Stroebel, Germany
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