Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!shift.utell.net!nobody
From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Creating a boot floppy
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:13:30 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
Lines: 23
Message-ID: <qq90q5.1r2.ln@shift.utell.net>
References: <ECzA5C.L9t@nonexistent.com> <33C1C830.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org>
<33c39dd4.9227458@news.flash.net>
Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44171
In article <33c39dd4.9227458@news.flash.net>,
ehovorka@flash.net (Ed Hovorka) writes:
[.....]
> 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.
Just boot from the install floppy and type
Boot: 2:sd(0,a)/kernel
The 2 says that it's the third BIOS disk device (your two IDE drives
being devices 0 & 1).
> TIA,
> --
> Ed Hovorka // ehovorka@flash.net
> "Moving at the speed of life."
> The above quote is stolen from Glen Burtnick, not Shell Oil.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !