Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:17:28 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Dave Ng <chump1@hushmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reviving old FreeBSD4 SCSI beast Message-ID: <52DED5D8.6040908@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20140121181241.27FF62035E@smtp.hushmail.com> References: <20140121181241.27FF62035E@smtp.hushmail.com>
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On 01/21/14 12:12, Dave Ng wrote: > So I have an older machine with a floppy drive, 4x SCSI drives, and a > SCSI CDROM. Some of the drives are bad, and I managed to hose the > userland by trying to install newer (~9.0 era, I think) binaries, > before the kernel. Or was it the other way around. Either way, I have > a machine that totally does not boot, and I am trying to revive it and > read the drives that are still good. > > I have a newer, working IDE drive I can stick in there, which should > help me out of this jam. However I still need to boot something in > order to do an install. If I had another floppy drive I could write > some boot floppies, if that is even still supported. But I only have > the one floppy. A USB stick would have been a great solution except > the motherboard is too old to support booting from USB. > Is it likely that my Adaptec SCSI board can boot from a CDROM if I > hook that device back up? > The other path I was thinking, is I could probably stick the IDE drive > in another (working) machine and dd a bootable image there. What would > I want to use, the memstick image, or disc1, or what? > The last option I can think of is PXE. Apparently this network board > supports that, since I get PXE error messages when I try to boot now. > However I have never set up a PXE server and have no idea how > difficult that is. > Thanks! > Sent using Hushmail > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" SCSI CD drives should be perfectly bootable. -Nathan
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