From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 21:55:17 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 E866B37B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E97F43E70 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:55:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7K4tD1b029335; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:55:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g7K4tC8S029332; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:55:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:55:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Doug Coombes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot from ATAPI Zip drive In-Reply-To: <000a01c247e4$33f05820$0100000a@localdomain> Message-ID: <20020819215350.U29289-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I recently setup a bootable CDROM while tinkering with the livecd port. One of the things you had to do was build a kernel with: options ROOTDEVNAME=\"cd9660:acd0\" In my case the above references my CD drive, but I imagine you'd need to do something similar for your zip drive... good luck. On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Doug Coombes wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message