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From: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDnewbie Q: making boot floppy to point to Jaz drive
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:42:05 +0000
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Damon wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> My system has 2 IDE hard drives and a Jaz Drive (Scsi id #4) connected
> to an Adaptec 1510 ISA SCSI card (no bios).
>
> I use OS/2 and NT boot managers on the IDE drives and don't want to
> get FreeBSD 2.1.6 involved with that.
>
> I installed 2.1.6 to the Jaz drive from cd but now I dont know how to
> boot to it! I want to have a BSD boot disk that will point to the Jaz
> drive automatically. I have tried various combos of 0:sd(0,a)/kernal
> but with no luck.
>
> I have gone through the web faqs but everything I found assumed you
> already had access to bsd. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance...
> Damon Grace
Try 1:sd(0,a)/kernel, but does the 1510 have a bios on it?
Steve
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