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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!DMZ.teir.com!r2d2.teir.com!usenet From: cwilliam@teir.com (Curtis Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: (Q) How to fix the bootstrap? Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 18:57:26 GMT Organization: Thomson Electronic Infomation Resources Lines: 46 Message-ID: <3190ee0b.82618278@news.teir.com> References: <4mq21s$3oq@news.clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: cwilliam-pc.teir.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 On 8 May 1996 11:54:36 GMT, tuupola@cloud9.l16.fi (Mika.J.H.Tuupola) wrote: > > Something a bit unexpected happened when I installed > FreeBSD on my scsi drive. In the install menu I chose > to install the 'BootEasy' bootmanager. Everything went > fine until I rebooted the machine. the result : > > NO BASIC ROM, SYSTEM HALTED. > > So what I now have figured out is that the bootmanager lies > in scsi drive but the bootstrap was written to the IDE drive > (which is the first drive) and the bootstrap cannot locate > the code for bootmanager. > > I am able to boot FreeBSD using a boot floppy and giving the > parameter hd(1,a)/kernel .... of course. What I would like > to know now is how to make a new bootstrap or how to make the > IDE drive bootable *without* destroyng the data on the disk. > > FYI. The IDE drive is used for dos and win95 (yuck). > > FYI2. If you wanted to know. the disk 0 is 540meg IDE and > disk 1 is 1.04gig SCSI... > >//MiT My systems all boot from the first IDE drive by default. If there is no IDE drive some SCSI controllers (Adaptec 1452C is what I use) will boot from the /dev/sd0 device. As far as I know there is no way to boot from the SCSI if you have an IDE in the system without using a boot manager like System Commander or lilo (for Linux). I've also had some luck using the OS/2 boot manager (but no luck using OS/2 itself :-) Curtis R. Williams Vice President, Technology Thomson Electronic Information Resources A Division of Thomson Publishing 205 Van Buren Street, Suite 300 Herndon, Virginia 22070 Voice: 703.736.1759 Fax: 703.736.1750 e-mail: cwilliams@teir.com e-mail: curt@access.digex.net