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Date:      Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:59:15 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Stefan Juhl <email@sjuhl.de>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting from ZIP 750 ...
Message-ID:  <200512232259.29354.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <003001c607b0$a1d70660$1f4ba8c0@stefanpc>
References:  <003001c607b0$a1d70660$1f4ba8c0@stefanpc>

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On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:34, Stefan Juhl wrote:
> Is anybody able to boot FreeBSD 5.x-STABLE from a ATAPI ZIP 750 .?
>
> I tried to, but it didn't work.

"it didn't work" is a pretty useless error message.

What happened? Is your BIOS set to boot off that device? Can it boot from i=
t?=20
Have you tried another OS on it?

If it looks like a hard disk I would think it *should* work as long as the=
=20
partition FreeBSD is installed onto is set to be bootable.

How did you partition and label the disk?
I've booted FreeBSD from a Jazz drive but it was a long time ago (and on SC=
SI=20
ISTR)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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