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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!news.delphi.com!BIX.com!arog From: arog@BIX.com (arog on BIX) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to make SCSI disk boot easy? Date: 26 Aug 95 13:20:03 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation Lines: 19 Message-ID: <arog.809443203@BIX.com> References: <41l98s$c4a@overload.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: bix.com Keywords: SCSI boot Jin, I'll assume that you're using FreeBSD-2.0-Release or later. I'll also assume that 2.0.5 has a similar install procedure to that of 2.0. (I'm holding off for 2.1) There are two options at the fdisk screen that need to be used, one to Write the data and a second to write the Bootblock, "W" and "B". Both operations appear to be required. There is another possible problem, that has it's roots in the rom bios' that we have to live with that think (pardon the expression) 'dos.' One of the partitions must be "marked" as "Active." I *think* that there is an option to do that with the FreeBSD fdisk. Alan Ogden arog@BIX.com