Floppy MBR? Compaq Proliant 3000

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Michael W. Holdeman" <lists at ptfd.org> writes:

> I have a compaq proliant 3000 E39 and have FreeBSD installed to a 40G IDE 
> drive I installed. It lets me install anyithing I want but the BIOS/Firmware 
> will not support booting from teh IDE HD's. I want to keep the SCSI array for 
> clean data on this server. How do I go about actually booting with a floppy, 
> or CD and just have the boot manager point to the IDE HD?

I just tried 
"boot0cfg -B -s 5 fd0"
and it worked.

It may not go to the particular disk you want, though.  
If not, and if BIOS settings won't fix it for you,
you can surely find another boot manager (there are 
several in ports) that will do it.  And with lots of 
pretty colors, too, I suspect.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/