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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--nextPart2743405.Bxd4npi87h Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 i= t?=20 Have you tried another OS on it? If it looks like a hard disk I would think it *should* work as long as the= =20 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 SC= SI=20 ISTR) =2D-=20 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 --nextPart2743405.Bxd4npi87h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDq+2p5ZPcIHs/zowRAjWfAKCJrFTje0jy3+qRU8jz93Img/4rWACcDBDH SERirIaCLxYJCrhtVhQEaN4= =UfZi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2743405.Bxd4npi87h--
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