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isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:


>In article <Bu0GGA.ApD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
>>yikes@netcom.com (Jenny Doll) writes:
>>
>>>All the floppy does (I think!) is boot from the CDROM, just to make it 
>>>easy for folks who don't want to Command~ and type the command themselves
>>>I forget the syntax for booting off of the CDROM, but it's just the same
>>>as any SCSI disk drive.
>>
>>I believe that people with ROM Monitors previous to v3.0 cannot boot
>>from a CD-ROM drive with 2.x, they need the floppy to install the proper
>>kernel so that they can boot from the CD-ROM.

>I just tried to look at the 3.0 PR2 floppy to verify that a new kernel is being
>installed from the floppy and panicked PR2 for the first time by simply
>double-clicking on the .hidden file on the floppy :-(  Now the floppy is
>damaged so even running fsck manually won't repair it (something about bad
>magic numbers in various cylinder groups, the same error I get when I try to
>format a floppy with a NeXT file system.  The same floppy formats fine using a
>DOS or Mac file system, so this must be a PR2 bug.)  I've panicked PR2 twice
>just trying to repair this floppy, so I give up.

>For someone with the 3.0 release, can floppies be formatted with the NeXT file
>system?
>-- 

>Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
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All you need to boot the CD_ROM is a special boot block.