Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:59:15 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Stefan Juhl <email@sjuhl.de>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from ZIP 750 ... Message-ID: <200512232259.29354.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <003001c607b0$a1d70660$1f4ba8c0@stefanpc> References: <003001c607b0$a1d70660$1f4ba8c0@stefanpc>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:34, Stefan Juhl wrote: > Is anybody able to boot FreeBSD 5.x-STABLE from a ATAPI ZIP 750 .? > > I tried to, but it didn't work. "it didn't work" is a pretty useless error message. What happened? Is your BIOS set to boot off that device? Can it boot from it? Have you tried another OS on it? If it looks like a hard disk I would think it *should* work as long as the partition FreeBSD is installed onto is set to be bootable. How did you partition and label the disk? I've booted FreeBSD from a Jazz drive but it was a long time ago (and on SCSI ISTR) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDq+2p5ZPcIHs/zowRAjWfAKCJrFTje0jy3+qRU8jz93Img/4rWACcDBDH SERirIaCLxYJCrhtVhQEaN4= =UfZi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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