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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting second drive Date: 4 Feb 1997 00:13:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5d5uul$emg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5cnjo4$qf7@news.bu.edu> <32efc55b.493387@news.mhv.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35034 dgrace@mhv.net (Damon) wrote: > I have seen a similar error report. I am trying to make a boot floppy > in order to use the floppy as a boot device then point to and start > freebsd on my Jaz drive (AHA 1510 card- no bios). If your SCSI controller doesn't have a BIOS, you can't boot from it, regardless of whether you're trying to use a boot floppy or not. The bootstrap *needs* BIOS support in order to load the file named /kernel. That's why it must reside below what the BIOS thinks were 1024 cylinders, and that's why the controller you're booting off must have BIOS support (either by the motherboard BIOS [IDE, NCR 53c810], or by an extension ROM). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)