From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 11:51:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (c228380-a.sfmissn1.sfba.home.com [24.20.90.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10F537B491; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:51:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1FJq6V18194; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:52:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200102151952.f1FJq6V18194@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Dennis Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD cant boot from ZIP - Is it true? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:45:44 EST." <5.0.0.25.0.20010215144326.03acd470@mail.etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:52:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >You can't boot from the parallel-port drives, but that's a feature of the > >PC not expecting to be able to boot from a printer rather than a FreeBSD > >issue. > > > >I've personally booted FreeBSD from the old, old ATA Zip drives, the > >ATAPI ones and of course the SCSI drives, in both whole-disk and > >sliced (as from the factory) modes. > > > I believe you, but no-one seems to know how to do it. FreeBSD seems to get > confused between the hard drive and the ZIP and it becomes a mess very > quickly. This is with ATAPI IDE drives btw. > > Whats the "trick"? There shouldn't be any trick; as long as you have the 'atapifd' driver in your kernel, and the correct entries in /etc/fstab on the disk, you should be fine. Where does the confusion arise? When you're trying to find the kernel, or when you're mounting root? Are you installing to the disk, or building a root filesystem manually? If you're having trouble mounting root, check what the kernel says it's trying to mount and if it's not /dev/afd0-something then you should suspect your /etc/fstab's / entry. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message