Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:49:22 +0200 From: Mats Hellman <matshell@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I re-format 'dangerously dedicated' drive? Message-ID: <7a92fec10511201849t55b746b4tea62003b21c3a0cb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200511210228.jAL2SZT7001772@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <20051120232420.GA98270@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200511210228.jAL2SZT7001772@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Just to make sure. You are using medias that your CD-ROM can read. I once almost ripped my hai= r of when I couldn't get an old machine to boot from cd. At the time I was using CD-RW medias and the drive was not able to read them. So if you are using CD-RW try a CD-R. Mats Hellman On 11/21/05, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I don't have an MS-DOS floppy, and I think my CDROM isn't booting > because the > > HD is 'dangerously dedicated,' even though it is a bootable CD and the > BIOS is > > set to boot it first. > > Since it is set to boot the HD first and it has a boot sector, the BIOS > doesn't want to get by that. > > So, you want to go in to the BIOS and reconfigure it to put the CD boot > in front of the HD. Then you can either completely reinstall the most > recent FreeBSD or use the fisit to rebuild something on that disk. > > The key thing is to have both floppy and CD in the boot order before > the Hard Disk. Change that only if you really need to. > > ////jerry > > > > > I want to totally clear my drive so I can reinstall from scratch from > CDROM. > > How can I do this? > > > > jm > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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