From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 28 08:11:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22498 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 08:11:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles233.castles.com [208.214.165.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22493 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 08:11:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00921; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 08:10:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811281610.IAA00921@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Didier Derny cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! booting 3.0-RELEASE from ide zip In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:40:24 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 08:10:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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