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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INSTALLATION BLUES...
Date: 22 Oct 1996 12:10:48 +0100
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In article <54ccgn$3fio$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>,
gibson1@ibm.net (Robert Gibson) writes:
: Could someone PLEASE help me get my new FreeBSD system booted???
:
: I have the following setup:
:
: IDE Hard Drive (C:) with Windows Workstation 4.0
: SCSI Hard Drive with FreeBSD on it. The SCSI controller is an Adaptec
: AHA1505, non-bootable model.
:
: I have gone through making a boot floppy, booting from it, running the install
: program, and installing FreeBSD. Now, how in the world do I get the darned
: machine to recognize the non-bootable SCSI drive and boot from it??? I have
: run Linux in the past, and have created a LILO boot disk where I would simply
: pass the parameters "mount aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" to LILO and it would then
: boot the system with Linux on the SCSI drive. How can I do something similar
: with FreeBSD???
You can either put a boot manager on your bootable drive (OSBS/FBSDBOOT) and
select FreeBSD on startup, or type something like
1:sd(0,a)/kernel
at the "Boot:" prompt. The '1' is the BIOS drive, the 's' is the disk type,
the '0' is the disk number, the 'a' is the FreeBSD logical partition, the
'/kernel' is the kernel file.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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