From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 17 11:13:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25230 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.aye.net (orion.aye.net [206.185.8.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA25221 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:13:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rabtter@orion.aye.net) Received: (qmail 21 invoked by uid 3759); 17 Jul 1998 18:14:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:14:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "B. Richardson" To: Craig Shrimpton cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD only bootstraps from floppy In-Reply-To: <007d01bdb18e$a45ecab0$02dd71d1@fargo.os.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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