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From: ehovorka@flash.net (Ed Hovorka)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Creating a boot floppy
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 14:30:33 GMT
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On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 21:55:12 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard"
<jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>[posted and emailed]
>
>Jim wrote:
>> 
>> I am trying to create a boot floppy for a FreeBSD 2.2.1 system, but am
>> having alot of trouble.  My basic problem boils down into not knowing
>> what to include on the floppy to boot a "minimal" system.
>
[snip]
>In other words, the tricks we had to pull to get a truly usable boot
>floppy were insane and you should now give up if you're not willing to
>do similar things.  ;-)  Read /usr/src/release/Makefile to see just what
>I'm talking about here.

Is there any way to create a boot floopy that can go far enough to 
find the SCSI card (and disk) and continue booting from the disk?

Here's what I'm trying to do.  I have an old PC w/ IDE drives. 
I'm out of disk space on those drives, but I also have an external
MO drive (scsi).  I'd like to boot off the MO drive, but my system
doesn't find the SCSI devices during boot.  I checked with
the tech support of the company that made my PC and they
said I need all SCSI drives to boot off a SCSI drive.  I had 
thought there might be a BIOS upgrade which could detect
a SCSI card.

Anyway, I was able to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 on the external
SCSI MO drive.  I just can't figure out how to boot from it.

TIA,
--
Ed Hovorka // ehovorka@flash.net
"Moving at the speed of life."
The above quote is stolen from Glen Burtnick, not Shell Oil.