Re: [cobalt-developers] Can the RaQ boot from floppy or CD?

["H.P. Stroebel" <hpstr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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,


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