From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 19:20:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 B199216A41F for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:20:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@ptfd.org) Received: from qtm.net (mummra.qtm.net [216.163.32.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 703DF43D68 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:20:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@ptfd.org) Received: (qmail 20736 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2005 19:20:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.14.103?) (ptfd@24.7.229.56) by mummra.qtm.net with SMTP; 12 Sep 2005 19:20:09 -0000 From: "Michael W. Holdeman" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:20:09 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509121520.09157.lists@ptfd.org> Subject: Floppy MBR? Compaq Proliant 3000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mikeh@ptfd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:20:17 -0000 I have a compaq proliant 3000 E39 and have FreeBSD installed to a 40G IDE drive I installed. It lets me install anyithing I want but the BIOS/Firmware will not support booting from teh IDE HD's. I want to keep the SCSI array for clean data on this server. How do I go about actually booting with a floppy, or CD and just have the boot manager point to the IDE HD? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman ________________________________________ Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | ________________________________________|