Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:54:46 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Creating a boot diskette that does nothing but boot from hard disk Message-ID: <1109238886.15386.70.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <1132187297.20050223212827@wanadoo.fr> References: <1132187297.20050223212827@wanadoo.fr>
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On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:28 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Is it possible to create a boot diskette that does nothing more than > boot from a specific hard disk? How would I go about doing so? Assuming you are unable to boot after completing the installation, have you tried a third-party boot manager like GAG? GAG in particular is quite good at booting weird hardware and might very well find your installation and offer it when you run the setup. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ > > If I can't figure out why my system won't boot from the hard disk on its > own, I figure that perhaps I could create a diskette to pop into the > machine that would simple boot immediately from the hard disk. It > shouldn't require much code and should easily fit on a single diskette. In fact, you can set up a floppy with GAG on it like this. But you might as well install GAG to the hard drive. Peter.
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