From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 25 13:56:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FBDB37B40A for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host62-6-103-115.dialup.lineone.co.uk (HELO jmdoliv) (62.6.103.115) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2001 20:56:43 -0000 X-Apparently-From: From: jmdupx@yahoo.com To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:55:31 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Q please Message-ID: <3BD738D3.10717.385012F@localhost> References: <3BD70ECA.5070900@callnetuk.com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org anyone have tips on installing without boot floppies, ie. getting the install started without kern and mfsroot disks ? I have a strange VL-bus machine that will just not accept being booted from any kind of floppy disk (DOS, Linux, FBSD and Windows 98 boot floppies all tried so far without success) I have tried I dont know how many different combinations of different hard-disk controllers and disk types and floppy controllers, and the only time the machine ever boots normally from a floppy is if it detects NO hdd controllers at all ! otherwise it just starts reading the floppy but then hangs after 10 to 20 seconds, depending on which boot-disk In the end I got the machine running DOS and some diagnostics programs by transplanting a hard disk. I can also boot linux on it with Loadlin from the DOS partition, so Im pretty sure all the components are OK individually. My guess is it's probably just the BIOS at fault, but that is not flashable, so I need a workaround more than a cure Im crazy and should probably just abandon the machine, but apart from that it runs fine and I had plans to run it as a test-machine or spare server, once I got something installed on it - the question is just how Mark jmdupx@yahoo.com On 25 Oct 2001, at 0:40, Annelise Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jens Richter wrote: > > > Hello > > I'm absolutely new to FreeBSD and I wonder if there is a complete > > HCL available. Eg, I'm running an IDE-ATA100 /RAID PCI-Adapter (HTP > > 370) and I could not find any information wether FreeBSD would boot > > or not. At the moment I use Linux 2.4.4-10 and it works. Thank's > > for a link. Jens > > > You can create the boot floppies as described on www.freebsd.org and > boot them, and see if they work. The kernel on the boot floppies has > all the RAID and ATA controllers included, so this is a reasonable > test. > > Annelise > > -- > Annelise Anderson > Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC > Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: > http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message