Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:53:35 -0800 From: "Dave Ng" <chump1@hushmail.com> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@mu.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reviving old FreeBSD4 SCSI beast Message-ID: <20140128055335.450F720152@smtp.hushmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52DEC272.3070907@mu.org> References: <20140121181241.27FF62035E@smtp.hushmail.com> <52DEC272.3070907@mu.org>
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This is the plan I started moving forward with. Looks mostly good, except when I go to boot the prepared hard drive it gives me errors mounting root fs, error 19! This happens with both the new amd64 I am running the recovery from, and the old i386 that I am trying to revocer. Any idea what I am doing wrong when I install via the usb<->ide? Sent using Hushmail On January 21, 2014 at 10:54 AM, "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@mu.org> wrote: > >Use a more modern machine to install to the IDE using an external >USB->IDE bridge, then relocate drive to old machine. > >On 1/21/14, 10:12 AM, Dave Ng wrote: >> So I have an older machine with a floppy drive, 4x SCSI drives, >and a >> SCSI CDROM. Some of the drives are bad, and I managed to hose the >> userland by trying to install newer (~9.0 era, I think) binaries, >> before the kernel. Or was it the other way around. Either way, I >have >> a machine that totally does not boot, and I am trying to revive >it and >> read the drives that are still good. >> >> I have a newer, working IDE drive I can stick in there, which >should >> help me out of this jam. However I still need to boot something >in >> order to do an install. If I had another floppy drive I could >write >> some boot floppies, if that is even still supported. But I only >have >> the one floppy. A USB stick would have been a great solution >except >> the motherboard is too old to support booting from USB. >> Is it likely that my Adaptec SCSI board can boot from a CDROM if >I >> hook that device back up? >> The other path I was thinking, is I could probably stick the IDE >drive >> in another (working) machine and dd a bootable image there. What >would >> I want to use, the memstick image, or disc1, or what? >> The last option I can think of is PXE. Apparently this network >board >> supports that, since I get PXE error messages when I try to boot >now. >> However I have never set up a PXE server and have no idea how >> difficult that is. >> Thanks! >> Sent using Hushmail >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers- >unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers- >unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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