From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 9 06:57:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA16348 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 06:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from arjun.niksun.com (gw.niksun.com [206.20.52.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA16325 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 06:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ath@niksun.com) Received: from stiegl.niksun.com (stiegl.niksun.com [10.0.0.44]) by arjun.niksun.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19011 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:57:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stiegl.niksun.com (localhost.niksun.com [127.0.0.1]) by stiegl.niksun.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA04815 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:57:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ath@stiegl.niksun.com) Message-Id: <199809091357.JAA04815@stiegl.niksun.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 From: Andrew Heybey To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: booting from pccard scsi disk Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 09:57:23 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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