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authorKarsten Merker <merker@debian.org>2015-04-03 18:18:18 +0000
committerKarsten Merker <merker@debian.org>2015-04-03 18:18:18 +0000
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Installation-Guide: modern arm hardware usually does not have ATAPI CDROM support
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@@ -49,11 +49,16 @@ On PCs SATA, IDE/ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROMs are supported.
USB CD-ROM drives are also supported, as are FireWire devices that
are supported by the ohci1394 and sbp2 drivers.
-</para><para arch="arm">
+</para>
+<!-- This is not true on today's hardware
+<para arch="arm">
IDE/ATAPI CD-ROMs are supported on all ARM machines.
-</para><para arch="mips">
+</para>
+-->
+
+<para arch="mips">
On SGI machines, booting from CD-ROM requires a SCSI CD-ROM drive
capable of working with a logical blocksize of 512 bytes. Many of the