Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:33:43 -0400 From: "Michael W. Holdeman" <mikeh@ptfd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy MBR? Compaq Proliant 3000 Message-ID: <200509141733.43695.mikeh@ptfd.org> In-Reply-To: <44fys7jw4r.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <200509121520.09157.lists@ptfd.org> <44fys7jw4r.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Wednesday 14 September 2005 03:18 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Michael W. Holdeman" <lists@ptfd.org> writes: > > I have a compaq proliant 3000 E39 and have FreeBSD installed to a 40G IDE > > drive I installed. It lets me install anyithing I want but the > > BIOS/Firmware will not support booting from teh IDE HD's. I want to keep > > the SCSI array for clean data on this server. How do I go about actually > > booting with a floppy, or CD and just have the boot manager point to the > > IDE HD? > > I just tried > "boot0cfg -B -s 5 fd0" > and it worked. On what machine? At the boot prompt? I got Gag45d and it does attempt to boot, just comes up invalid partition, just like booting without a boot manager. Seems the IDE HD is not recognized untill further in the boot process? Mike > It may not go to the particular disk you want, though. > If not, and if BIOS settings won't fix it for you, > you can surely find another boot manager (there are > several in ports) that will do it. And with lots of > pretty colors, too, I suspect. -- Michael W. Holdeman ________________________________________ Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | ________________________________________|
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