reviving old FreeBSD4 SCSI beast

[Dave Ng]

This is the plan I started moving forward with. Looks mostly good, except when I go to boot the prepared hard drive it gives me errors mounting root fs, error 19! This happens with both the new amd64 I am running the recovery from, and the old i386 that I am trying to revocer. Any idea what I am doing wrong when I install via the usb<->ide?



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On January 21, 2014 at 10:54 AM, "Alfred Perlstein" <bright at mu.org> wrote:
>
>Use a more modern machine to install to the IDE using an external 
>USB->IDE bridge, then relocate drive to old machine.
>
>On 1/21/14, 10:12 AM, Dave Ng wrote:
>> So I have an older machine with a floppy drive, 4x SCSI drives, 
>and a
>> SCSI CDROM. Some of the drives are bad, and I managed to hose the
>> userland by trying to install newer (~9.0 era, I think) binaries,
>> before the kernel. Or was it the other way around. Either way, I 
>have
>> a machine that totally does not boot, and I am trying to revive 
>it and
>> read the drives that are still good.
>>
>> I have a newer, working IDE drive I can stick in there, which 
>should
>> help me out of this jam. However I still need to boot something 
>in
>> order to do an install. If I had another floppy drive I could 
>write
>> some boot floppies, if that is even still supported. But I only 
>have
>> the one floppy. A USB stick would have been a great solution 
>except
>> the motherboard is too old to support booting from USB.
>> Is it likely that my Adaptec SCSI board can boot from a CDROM if 
>I
>> hook that device back up?
>> The other path I was thinking, is I could probably stick the IDE 
>drive
>> in another (working) machine and dd a bootable image there. What 
>would
>> I want to use, the memstick image, or disc1, or what?
>> The last option I can think of is PXE. Apparently this network 
>board
>> supports that, since I get PXE error messages when I try to boot 
>now.
>> However I have never set up a PXE server and have no idea how
>> difficult that is.
>> Thanks!
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