From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 17 07:25:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00528 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 07:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from solar.os.com (root@solar.os.com [209.113.221.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00459 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 07:25:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craigs@os.com) Received: from fargo (fargo.os.com [209.113.221.2]) by solar.os.com (8.7/8.7.0) with SMTP id KAA19942 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:28:12 -0400 Message-ID: <007d01bdb18e$a45ecab0$02dd71d1@fargo.os.com> From: "Craig Shrimpton" To: Subject: FreeBSD only bootstraps from floppy Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:24:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, I have a FBSD box that requires a boot floppy to start. The floppy is required to get the hard disk to load the OS, it's not required to run the system. Apparently the boot sector is not being found on startup. I suspect that the problem has something to do with the BIOS translation settings on the SCSI controller. Is there any way to correct this short of a complete re-install? Can I turn off BIOS translation and re-install a boot sector without fouling up the data? Thanks, Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message