From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 12:29:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7A116A41F; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:29:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B58743D5F; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:29:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp132-74.lns2.adl2.internode.on.net [59.167.132.74]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jBNCTaHF048502 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:59:36 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:59:15 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <003001c607b0$a1d70660$1f4ba8c0@stefanpc> In-Reply-To: <003001c607b0$a1d70660$1f4ba8c0@stefanpc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2743405.Bxd4npi87h"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200512232259.29354.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Stefan Juhl , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from ZIP 750 ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:29:41 -0000 --nextPart2743405.Bxd4npi87h Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2743405.Bxd4npi87h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDq+2p5ZPcIHs/zowRAjWfAKCJrFTje0jy3+qRU8jz93Img/4rWACcDBDH SERirIaCLxYJCrhtVhQEaN4= =UfZi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2743405.Bxd4npi87h--