From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 18 07:09:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23179 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 07:09:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23168 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 07:09:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA00151; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 14:08:20 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id QAA11402; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 16:08:20 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980718160820.10013@follo.net> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 16:08:20 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Craig Shrimpton , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD only bootstraps from floppy References: <007d01bdb18e$a45ecab0$02dd71d1@fargo.os.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <007d01bdb18e$a45ecab0$02dd71d1@fargo.os.com>; from Craig Shrimpton on Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 10:24:38AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 10:24:38AM -0400, 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? Check that your motherboard hasn't got a boot sector protection switch. The Intel server ones _do_, and default to boot sector protection (which obviously screws a FreeBSD install). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message