Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:14:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "B. Richardson" <rabtter@aye.net> To: Craig Shrimpton <craigs@os.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD only bootstraps from floppy Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.980717141230.28785A-100000@orion.aye.net> In-Reply-To: <007d01bdb18e$a45ecab0$02dd71d1@fargo.os.com>
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I had this occur on a small IDE disk once and out of desparation I booted from a DOS floppy and did an FDISK/MBR and it came around. On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Craig Shrimpton wrote: > Folks, > > I have a FBSD box that requires a boot floppy to start. The floppy is > required to get the hard disk to load the OS, it's not required to run the > system. Apparently the boot sector is not being found on startup. > > I suspect that the problem has something to do with the BIOS translation > settings on the SCSI controller. Is there any way to correct this short of > a complete re-install? Can I turn off BIOS translation and re-install a > boot sector without fouling up the data? > > Thanks, > > Craig > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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