Re: Booting to floppy
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:35:50PM -0800, Tovar wrote:
> > just my crazy suggestion, if you can't get the keyboard to work right
> > for the rootdisk prompt, what about changing it to wait 10 or 15
> > seconds for a rootdisk insertion and then continuing? would that be
> > difficult/messy to implement?
> >
> > Well, the standard Mac way of doing things is the check the floppy status
> > and to read whatever gets inserted. That, of course, assumes the floppy
> > hardware provides that information. Actually, i wish the i386 installer
> > would do that, it would save alot of hassle.
>
> i386 generally can not do that.
>
> PowerPC theoretically could... if I could talk the driver into giving
> me that information. Suggestions welcome :)
Since AmigaOS did it as well and Amigas use standard PC floppy drives (only
DD, HD is different), it should work on i386 as well.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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