Re: CD Boot 2.6.1

[Jim Chapman <cchapman8@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Hmm.  Very odd.  The disk doesn't have a slices struct.  Are any
>     drives other than the CD detected by the system boot?  If so try
>     disconnecting them and see if the CD boots.  I suspect there's an
>     unformatted drive connected that is tickling the bug.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>
>
>   
My system has a floppy drive and 2 ide drives. The master is a tape 
drive (sa0) and the slave is a zip drive (da0).

If I disconnect the zip drive the CD boots OK. I tried booting with a 
disk in the drive but it still failed.
I didn't try making the tape the slave and disconnecting it.

Thanks, Jim Chapman