[rescue] intel wasteful?

[George Adkins]

> > How did you get the PeeCee BIOS to read a boot block from Tape?
>
> PeeCee BIOS never sees the tape.  At best it knows to boot from SCSI
> device.  It's up to the SCSI controller to boot the right device.
>
> > Or are you using a Bootstrap Floppy?
>
> Usually I do but it is not necessary.
>
> > is it SCSI? Which host adapter? (I'm unaware of any PeeCee SCSI host
> > adapters that support booting from tape directly)
> 

I am skeptical of it even being possible on a PeeCee without booting a kernel 
from some other random access device first.
I'll believe it when I see it.

George