Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 08:10:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Didier Derny <didier@omnix.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! booting 3.0-RELEASE from ide zip Message-ID: <199811281610.IAA00921@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:40:24 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.3.96.981123113702.19798A-100000@omnix.net>
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> I'm trying to boot from an ide zip drive. This is a bit difficult. > I generated a boot disk on a scsi zip but I'm unable to boot from the > ide zip drive. > > It refuses to see the zip drive except as a floppy disk. > in that cases it sees the boot block but I'm unable to go further > (it tries to load from fd) That's because the drive is presented by the BIOS as a floppy drive. > I've not succedded in trying to override manually to 0:wd(0,a) That won't help either; it will try to use BIOS unit 0x80, where the IDE zip is 0x0. You may have better luck with the new boot1/boot2 code; I haven't got that far in testing yet. If you're interested in working on this for the new bootstrap code, drop me a line and I can explain the (relatively simple) issues involved and get you going in the right direction. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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