From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 27 00:53:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA22314 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 00:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA22308 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 00:53:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA07878; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:51:36 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA13243; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:51:36 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA23701; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:00:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608270700.JAA23701@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1.5 install failure: booting from fd0 in stead of sd0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:00:51 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608270634.IAA11231@gvr.win.tue.nl> from Guido van Rooij at "Aug 27, 96 08:34:26 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Guido van Rooij wrote: > > Your only chance short of replacing the BIOS is to hack the bootcode > > on your harddisk so it will never try booting off a floppy again. > > I concluded the same. However, how can it be that a previously installed > NT on a FAT filesystem does boot? Their bootstrap is not ``multimedia ready''? :-)) (I.e., it can only boot off a harddisk.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)