From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 22:20:21 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 017AC16A41F for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:20:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikeh@ptfd.org) Received: from pickering.cc.nd.edu (pickering.cc.nd.edu [129.74.250.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8716843D45 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:20:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikeh@ptfd.org) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (compaqser.fire-safety.nd.edu [129.74.233.62]) (authenticated bits=0) by pickering.cc.nd.edu (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j8EMKGfu023865 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:20:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael W. Holdeman" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:33:43 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200509121520.09157.lists@ptfd.org> <44fys7jw4r.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44fys7jw4r.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509141733.43695.mikeh@ptfd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ND-MTA-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:20:19 -0500 (EST) X-ND-Virus-Scan: engine v4.4.00; dat v4581 Subject: Re: Floppy MBR? Compaq Proliant 3000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mikeh@ptfd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:20:21 -0000 On Wednesday 14 September 2005 03:18 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "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. On what machine? At the boot prompt? I got Gag45d and it does attempt to boot, just comes up invalid partition, just like booting without a boot manager. Seems the IDE HD is not recognized untill further in the boot process? Mike > 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. -- Michael W. Holdeman ________________________________________ Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | ________________________________________|