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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!slugvine.demon.co.uk!jas From: jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Booting from Removeable SCSI Drives Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:28:52 GMT Organization: Home Lines: 24 Message-ID: <DnGBK4.8x@slugvine.demon.co.uk> References: <312FAC67.146F@wcupa.edu> <4gr07m$9a@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: slugvine.demon.co.uk In article <4gr07m$9a@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > >There's also an `od' driver available specialized to magneto-optical >disks (and potentially also for other removable-media disk drives), >but it didn't made it into 2.1R. However, it's available under >/xperimnt there (in ``joergs-2.2-stuff'') if you are curious. Will this allow me to boot from a removeable SCSI drive using a boot floppy? I have a Syquest EZ135 as SCSI ID 4, which FreeBSD can access as /dev/sd1. I have made a self-contained installation of FreeBSD 2.1 on a Syquest EZ135 cartridge, and tried booting this from the "boot:" prompt given by the original installation (on the hard drive) and from the boot floppy as either sd(1,a)/kernel or sd(4,a)/kernel. The result is always the same - an endlessly repeating message something like "Error H=0 T=0 S=0". Is this because the sd boot device only works with drives that are supported by the BIOS (INT 13), or am I doing something wrong? (I formatted this cartridge with FDISK-style partitioning, but I don't think that using the "entire drive for FreeBSD" option would solve this problem.) -- John Stark (at home) | Cambridge, England jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk | Tel. Cambridge (01223) 573555