Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:52:41 -0500 (EST) From: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Subject: Can I build a floppy to boot the kernel on the hard drive from? Message-ID: <200001211452.GAA23173@netcom.com>
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I have an old Vectra 486 that I brought home to set up for a gateway at work, over the weekend. Unfortunately the 1.2G drive that I brought seems to be bad, either that or the disk controler. I have a 20G drive that would like to put in this machine over the weekend amd do som make worlds to test if it's the drive or the controler. Unfortunately I can't seem to get the BIOS to tell the FreeBSD boot loader about this drive. Even though it appears to be detected corectly by the BIOS. When I boot off the install disks, I only get a message about BIOSdrive A. However I was able to get FreebSD to recognize the disk and install (since it does not use the BISO, I assume). However that leaves me with a system that will not boot. So I am wondering if I can build some sort of boot floppy for this machine? I really jsut need to get it booted up inot FreeBSD once to run the test. I amm not going to doante my 20G drive to work :-) But if I determine that the problem really is the drive, and not the controler I can get a new/old drive at work Monday. Thanks for any sugestiosn on this. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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