From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 8 05:31:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA14655 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 05:31:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ren.globecomm.net (ren.globecomm.net [207.51.48.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA14650 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 05:31:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tanvir@mail.org) Received: from mail.org (mg128-048.ricochet.net [204.179.128.48]) by ren.globecomm.net (8.8.8/8.8.0) with ESMTP id IAA23673 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:31:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <34B4D53B.B779245D@mail.org> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 05:31:39 -0800 From: Tanvir Hassan Reply-To: tanvir@mail.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Install problems with Jaz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I installed freebsd onto a Jaz disk and things seemed to work with the aha2940 drivers. There was an initial complaint about an inability to get geometry info from the jaz disk but it seemed to guess the right values and the install went all the way through with tons of disk access without errors. But, now I have a stupid question. I didn't want the freebsd to overwrite my MBR, so how do I boot this disk? I tried to use my initial boot disk to point it to the scsi disk but it never seems to find it! Is that geometry problem coming back to haunt me? My Linux has this neat utility where I copy a kernel image to a dos partition and I can run a Win95 program to boot using that image. Is there an equivalent utility for FreeBSD? It is VERY frustrating to spend all that time installing stuff and have a full disk but NO WAY to boot it! :-)