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From: "Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Michael W. Holdeman
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 7:45 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: boot on CD?
> 
> 
> OK so my proliant 3000 server will not boot to the ide HD that I have 
> successfully loaded FreeBSD 6 beta on 3 times. So what if (and most 
> improtantly HOW) I create a CD with the / and /etc on it that 
> would get the 
> kernel, and the config files from /etc, then once the kernel 
> finds the ide 
> hd, the /usr and /home could stay on teh HD?
> 
> Does this make any sense? I just want to boot the 3000 far 
> enough for it to 
> recognize the ide HD and then switch to it for the rest. And 
> it does find it 
> when it shows the drives during the boot sequence with the 
> install CD in.
> 
> Mike

While there are many notes on creating your own distribution disk, it is
probably easier just to figure out why you can't boot from the HDD.  How
about giving us both a dmesg and an fdisk report?

-gayn