Alexander Hall wrote:
Christopher Bianchi skrev:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot
from USB.
So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The
Christopher Bianchi skrev:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot
from USB.
So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the
procedure
On 10/11/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Craig Skinner ha scritto:
Christopher Bianchi wrote:
The situation is this: this notebook can boot from cdrom and floppy,
yes..but from docking station ! i haven't docking station ! Desperate
:-(
Can it boot from a USB floppy?
nikolai wrote:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot
from USB.
So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the
procedure from an
Em Seg, 2007-10-15 C s 22:11 -0400, nikolai escreveu:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot
from USB.
So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but
On 10/15/07, Rodrigo V. Raimundo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Em Sex, 2007-10-12 C s 09:57 +0200, Raimo Niskanen escreveu:
Can grub actually boot a bsd kernel. I thought it was in a
different binary format than Linux kernels.
Grub can boot *BSD kernel and can detect in what binary format it is.
On 2007/10/16 16:58, Andrew Daugherity wrote:
I have not had success booting an OpenBSD kernel directly from GRUB.
Specifying --type=openbsd allows GRUB to load the kernel, but the
kernel then dies with panic: /boot too old: upgrade!
it's probably trying to boot is as a.out; no guarantees but
According to grub documentation
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#kernel ...
Em Sex, 2007-10-12 C s 09:57 +0200, Raimo Niskanen escreveu:
Can grub actually boot a bsd kernel. I thought it was in a
different binary format than Linux kernels.
Grub can boot *BSD kernel and can
Can grub actually boot a bsd kernel. I thought it was in a
different binary format than Linux kernels.
Does grub pass kernel arguments to the bsd kernel in the
right way.
Sorry about the doubts, but I have always chain loaded
OpenBSD from grub through the PBR code in biosboot
installed by
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Basically, your problem is that you need a smarter bootloader.
http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm ( maybe a usb floppy/pen drive)
Steve Shockley ha scritto:
Christopher Bianchi wrote:
Thanks for the attention Nick, but 1) i can't boot from pxe ( damn Sharp
) and 2) i wish an elegance solution without pull out the hard disk.
Thanks
What would you do if you had to reload Windows 2000? I've never seen
a PC that could
Christopher Bianchi wrote:
The situation is this: this notebook can boot from cdrom and floppy,
yes..but from docking station ! i haven't docking station ! Desperate :-(
Can it boot from a USB floppy?
ropers ha scritto:
On 10/10/2007, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Guenther ha scritto:
On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
Craig Skinner ha scritto:
Christopher Bianchi wrote:
The situation is this: this notebook can boot from cdrom and floppy,
yes..but from docking station ! i haven't docking station ! Desperate
:-(
Can it boot from a USB floppy?
in the bios there aren't any voices for boot from usb... so i
Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mmm i've tried qemu, but i wish install really OpenBSD on it. I've a
pcmcia but this notebook can't boot from it.
As Craig pointed out, if the machine has a USB port it's likely it can
boot from USB floppy.
--
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the
Peter N. M. Hansteen ha scritto:
Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mmm i've tried qemu, but i wish install really OpenBSD on it. I've a
pcmcia but this notebook can't boot from it.
As Craig pointed out, if the machine has a USB port it's likely it can
boot from USB
How about an external CDROM drive connected to a parallel port? Micro
Solutions used to make one (called BackPack) that could connect via
USB, PCCard, and Parallel Port. Once you loaded the drivers under
Windows I'm pretty sure you could boot from it.
On 10/11/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL
That's the best answer so far But, personally, I believe it can be done
without programming and hacking OpenBSD installation program to work
in the same way as Ubuntu install.exe
Here's how I thing it _might_ work. The point is to use a bootable linux
partition to bridge from !OpenBSD to
Christopher Bianchi a icrit :
Thanks for the attention Nick, but 1) i can't boot from pxe ( damn Sharp
) and 2) i wish an elegance solution without pull out the hard disk. Thanks
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm maybe ?
and http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ for partition editing before.
Gerald Thornberry schrieb:
How about an external CDROM drive connected to a parallel port? Micro
Solutions used to make one (called BackPack) that could connect via
USB, PCCard, and Parallel Port. Once you loaded the drivers under
Windows I'm pretty sure you could boot from it.
Hmm,
what
On 10/11/07, Guido Tschakert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gerald Thornberry schrieb:
How about an external CDROM drive connected to a parallel port? Micro
Solutions used to make one (called BackPack) that could connect via
USB, PCCard, and Parallel Port. Once you loaded the drivers under
Once upon a time there was a program called loadlin...
I've used it a couple times. It was quite annoying when, by mistake, double
clicked somewhere and, without further warning, a Linux distro was booting
right in front of me.
snip
Wasn't there, in the last century, a tool for windows to boot
Em Qua, 2007-10-10 C s 21:49 +0200, Christopher Bianchi escreveu:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot
from USB.
So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd ,
On 11/10/2007, Marcus Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Once upon a time there was a program called loadlin...
Relevancy link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadlin
Cool. Didn't noticed a version of grub that runs on windows.
snip
See: http://www.geocities.com/lode_leroy/grubinstall/
snip
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot
from USB.
So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the
procedure from an older OpenBSD
On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot
from USB.
So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how
Nick Guenther ha scritto:
On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot
from USB.
So i've
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:49:24PM +0200, Christopher Bianchi wrote:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot
from USB.
So i've thinked to boot the
On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Guenther ha scritto:
On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install
On 10/10/2007, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Guenther ha scritto:
On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install
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