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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!news-in.iadfw.net!excalibur.flash.net!not-for-mail From: ehovorka@flash.net (Ed Hovorka) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Creating a boot floppy Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 14:30:33 GMT Organization: Flashnet Communications, http://www.flash.net Lines: 37 Message-ID: <33c39dd4.9227458@news.flash.net> References: <ECzA5C.L9t@nonexistent.com> <33C1C830.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: ehovorka@flash.net NNTP-Posting-Host: ctc4-162.flash.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44157 On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 21:55:12 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >[posted and emailed] > >Jim wrote: >> >> I am trying to create a boot floppy for a FreeBSD 2.2.1 system, but am >> having alot of trouble. My basic problem boils down into not knowing >> what to include on the floppy to boot a "minimal" system. > [snip] >In other words, the tricks we had to pull to get a truly usable boot >floppy were insane and you should now give up if you're not willing to >do similar things. ;-) Read /usr/src/release/Makefile to see just what >I'm talking about here. Is there any way to create a boot floopy that can go far enough to find the SCSI card (and disk) and continue booting from the disk? Here's what I'm trying to do. I have an old PC w/ IDE drives. I'm out of disk space on those drives, but I also have an external MO drive (scsi). I'd like to boot off the MO drive, but my system doesn't find the SCSI devices during boot. I checked with the tech support of the company that made my PC and they said I need all SCSI drives to boot off a SCSI drive. I had thought there might be a BIOS upgrade which could detect a SCSI card. Anyway, I was able to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 on the external SCSI MO drive. I just can't figure out how to boot from it. TIA, -- Ed Hovorka // ehovorka@flash.net "Moving at the speed of life." The above quote is stolen from Glen Burtnick, not Shell Oil.