From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 8:12:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from accord.grasslake.net (accord.grasslake.net [206.11.249.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDD237B4F9 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:12:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from marlowe (accord.grasslake.net [206.11.249.240]) by accord.grasslake.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e9VGAs513815 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:10:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Message-ID: <000501c04355$79343680$b8209fc0@marlowe> From: "Shawn Barnhart" To: Subject: Boot hard-disk based system from floppy? Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:13:14 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an HP Netserver LC2000 (Serverworks chipset, Symbios SCSI) that I seem to be able to install FreeBSD to from a bootable CD (4.1.1 ISO) but I cannot seem to get it to boot after the installation is over. I have a single harddisk in the #1 hotswap tray. I've made it boot from DOS and Windows 2000, so I'm pretty sure there's no hardware setting that I'm missing. Is there any way to create a boot floppy that can boot an arbitrary kernel? A FreeBSD version of loadlin? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message