From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 21 20:17:31 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD951C78 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:17:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpauth4.wiscmail.wisc.edu (wmauth4.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.145]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8CF0B14BD for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:17:31 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth4.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth4.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) id <0MZR00C00PCXRW00@smtpauth4.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:17:29 -0600 (CST) X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-4, Version=6.0.3.2322014, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2014.1.21.200617, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (i3-user-nat.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.12]) by smtpauth4.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) with ESMTPSA id <0MZR00EJ2PP44P30@smtpauth4.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:17:29 -0600 (CST) Message-id: <52DED5D8.6040908@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:17:28 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 To: Dave Ng , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reviving old FreeBSD4 SCSI beast References: <20140121181241.27FF62035E@smtp.hushmail.com> In-reply-to: <20140121181241.27FF62035E@smtp.hushmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:17:31 -0000 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