Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 03:29:42 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com, mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space Message-ID: <199812141129.DAA00571@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Dec 1998 19:01:32 %2B1030." <XFMail.981208190132.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Geez, format your messages already. 8) > On 08-Dec-98 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > with information on your configuration. We'll pick out 10 people who > > seem to represent a reasonably diverse collection of CD-booters and > > send them a copy of of this. If it works on all 10, that will be a > > good sign. If it does not, it won't be and we can rethink this. :-) > > Well, I'm about to sacrifice another virgin CD blank to the ravening > CD monster to test this.. The first one I did had a broken partition > table, so it would SEE it, just not boot :) > > OK, thats done.. and the BIOS says that it sees the parition and its > moved my hard drives up a letter.. It then tries to boot, but gets > 'Missing operating system' You forgot to put a bootblock on the image. Splat /boot/boot0 over the first 512 bytes of the image and try again. There's a stock (no menu) bootblock somewhere in the libdisk sources as well. > Note that this is trying to boot off a SCSI CDROM (which works for, > say the 2.2.7 CD). The board is a P6SBS Supermicro job. (which has an > Ami WinBIOS) > > On our Abit board with an Award BIOS I get the same results.. It sees > the partition, but fails to boot. Sounds promising; indications are that this is the way that the NT bootable CD does it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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