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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!zdc!runner.sorosis.ro!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!cloud9.l16.fi!tuupola From: tuupola@cloud9.l16.fi (Mika.J.H.Tuupola) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: (Q) How to fix the bootstrap? Date: 11 May 1996 13:12:44 GMT Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4n23oc$6ro@news.clinet.fi> References: <4mq21s$3oq@news.clinet.fi> <3190ee0b.82618278@news.teir.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.l16.fi X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Curtis Williams (cwilliam@teir.com) wrote: : My systems all boot from the first IDE drive by default. If there is : no IDE drive some SCSI controllers (Adaptec 1452C is what I use) will : boot from the /dev/sd0 device. As far as I know there is no way to : boot from the SCSI if you have an IDE in the system without using : a boot manager like System Commander or lilo (for Linux). I've also Seems that I forgot to mention that I have to boot using a boot disk (3.5" disk) and give the parameters hd(1,a)/kernel there. As I mentioned myh system doesnt boot at all from IDE drive. When trying to boot without a 3.5" boot disk the error message is NO BASIC ROM, SYSTEM HALTED. //MiT