Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 09:57:23 -0400 From: Andrew Heybey <ath@niksun.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: booting from pccard scsi disk Message-ID: <199809091357.JAA04815@stiegl.niksun.com>
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I have a laptop (running windoze) on which I'd like to be able to boot FreeBSD for a demo. I do have an Adaptect SlimSCSI pccard SCSI controller (which should work with FreeBSD) and a JAZ drive. Is there a way to boot a kernel (maybe by using fbsdboot.exe) that has / on the Jaz drive? It's a chicken-and-egg problem: the controller doesn't get recognized until pccardd runs, but that requires a filesystem... Questions: 1) Has anyone managed to get a SlimSCSI recognized by the aic driver (without the intervention of pccardd)? I haven't had any luck yet, but maybe I haven't figured out the correct IRQ/ ports. 2) Can anyone think of another way to do this? I have a Real Computer on which I could even build a custom boot floppy or CDROM but I don't have enough clues to know exactly what to do. Can one run a real system with / as an MFS and /usr, /var, /bin mounted from another disk? thanks, andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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