From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 19:18:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 955C016A41F for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:18:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail22.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail22.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13DEA43D46 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:18:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 29513 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2005 19:18:45 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail22.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Sep 2005 19:18:45 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 8299D2F; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:18:44 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: mikeh@ptfd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200509121520.09157.lists@ptfd.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 14 Sep 2005 15:18:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200509121520.09157.lists@ptfd.org> Message-ID: <44fys7jw4r.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: Re: Floppy MBR? Compaq Proliant 3000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:18:46 -0000 "Michael W. Holdeman" writes: > I have a compaq proliant 3000 E39 and have FreeBSD installed to a 40G IDE > drive I installed. It lets me install anyithing I want but the BIOS/Firmware > will not support booting from teh IDE HD's. I want to keep the SCSI array for > clean data on this server. How do I go about actually booting with a floppy, > or CD and just have the boot manager point to the IDE HD? I just tried "boot0cfg -B -s 5 fd0" and it worked. It may not go to the particular disk you want, though. If not, and if BIOS settings won't fix it for you, you can surely find another boot manager (there are several in ports) that will do it. And with lots of pretty colors, too, I suspect. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/