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From: jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Booting from Removeable SCSI Drives
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:28:52 GMT
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In article <4gr07m$9a@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>
>There's also an `od' driver available specialized to magneto-optical
>disks (and potentially also for other removable-media disk drives),
>but it didn't made it into 2.1R.  However, it's available under
>/xperimnt there (in ``joergs-2.2-stuff'') if you are curious.

Will this allow me to boot from a removeable SCSI drive using a boot floppy?
I have a Syquest EZ135 as SCSI ID 4, which FreeBSD can access as /dev/sd1.

I have made a self-contained installation of FreeBSD 2.1 on a Syquest EZ135
cartridge, and tried booting this from the "boot:" prompt given by the
original installation (on the hard drive) and from the boot floppy as
either sd(1,a)/kernel or sd(4,a)/kernel.  The result is always the same -
an endlessly repeating message something like "Error H=0 T=0 S=0".

Is this because the sd boot device only works with drives that are
supported by the BIOS (INT 13), or am I doing something wrong?
(I formatted this cartridge with FDISK-style partitioning, but I don't think
that using the "entire drive for FreeBSD" option would solve this problem.)
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