Floppy MBR? Compaq Proliant 3000

Michael W. Holdeman mikeh at ptfd.org
Wed Sep 14 15:20:21 PDT 2005


On Wednesday 14 September 2005 03:18 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "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.

On what machine? At the boot prompt?

I got Gag45d and it does attempt to boot, just comes up invalid partition, 
just like booting without a boot manager. Seems the IDE HD is not recognized 
untill further in the boot process?

Mike

> 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.

-- 
 
Michael W. Holdeman


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