From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 21 02:56:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 C102416A41F for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:56:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matshell@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 489AA43D49 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:56:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matshell@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 57so259072wri for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:55:59 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=MJDFiC8UJdcs7M2ylvTv6xlDKh2Gm9Icas9UJS91wUdRtkJxGP9XbgVDEKPZgj4MdlU67sZnwvt5CGCgxh5co0b23DM6iFTsykl8JZ1rRSa+eAtQIe2Qau+AtGQNgDnPwNxndLH3ciGFzXlPtUMge+GBh0aac7irCOkBHOx2+aw= Received: by 10.65.15.4 with SMTP id s4mr2344037qbi; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:49:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.210.11 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:49:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7a92fec10511201849t55b746b4tea62003b21c3a0cb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:49:22 +0200 From: Mats Hellman To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200511210228.jAL2SZT7001772@clunix.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20051120232420.GA98270@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200511210228.jAL2SZT7001772@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: How do I re-format 'dangerously dedicated' drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:56:00 -0000 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 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" >