From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 17:57:19 2002 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 B4BED37B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta03bw.bigpond.com (mta03bw.bigpond.com [139.134.6.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F92443E88 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:57:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@needanerd.com.au) Received: from aperson ([144.135.24.84]) by mta03bw.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta03bw May 23 2002 23:53:28) with SMTP id H14ANE00.E1U for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:57:14 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-137-28-216.vic.bigpond.net.au ([144.137.28.216]) by bwmam06.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0n 47/39957363); 20 Aug 2002 10:57:13 Message-ID: <000a01c247e4$33f05820$0100000a@localdomain> From: "Doug Coombes" To: Subject: Boot from ATAPI Zip drive Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:54:56 +1000 Organization: Need a Nerd? - for computer servicing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, We have spent the last three days trying to setup a FreeBSD_4.5 ATAPI Zip drive boot disk. There appears to be no documentation on the FreeBSD web site or anywhere else on the Internet about whether this is actually possible, and if it is, and how to go about. So we have experimented with just about every imaginable combination of slices, partitions, bootstraps etc, but cannot get past the prompt below: >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: We have tried every valid combination of device names and numbers at the above prompt, but nothing works. Are we doing something wrong, or is it simply not possible to boot directly from an ATAPI Zip drive? My partner in this project has 15 years of experience administering various types of UNIX systems but she is stumped by this one. Cheers, Doug Coombes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message