Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-13 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Nick Holland wrote: > MBR problems shouldn't cause the inability to boot > using a bootloader pulled from floppy (or CD), but the fact the > system can't boot on its own indicates there's something wrong > with the installed system, and if that's the case, the flo

Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-13 Thread Nick Holland
Eric d'Alibut wrote: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > >>> Might want to try the boot floppy, and if you have an issue using a >>> boot floppy, try cdemu45.iso (it emulate a boot floppy, so has the >>> boot floppy's /boot). > >> Ok, I'll give that a whirl. > > No joy. Sa

Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-12 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Eric d'Alibut wrote: >> Might want to try the boot floppy, and if you have an issue using a >> boot floppy, try cdemu45.iso (it emulate a boot floppy, so has the >> boot floppy's /boot). > Ok, I'll give that a whirl. No joy. Same behavior. I went into the BIOS

Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-12 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Nick Holland wrote: > Booting from a CD? Not the floppy of the subject: line? I made a couple of CD's, from the cd45.iso and install45.iso images, following a suggestion earlier in the thread. So far, with several re-installs, both from network and CD, I get ide

Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-12 Thread Nick Holland
Eric d'Alibut wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Nick > Holland wrote: > >> If you look early on at the boot messages, you probably see something >> like: >> B disk: fd0 hd0*+ hd1+ > > Exactly that. (Only, since I am now booting from the install CD, there > is a 'cd0' appended.) Booting

Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-11 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Nick Holland wrote: > If you look early on at the boot messages, you probably see something > like: > B disk: fd0 hd0*+ hd1+ Exactly that. (Only, since I am now booting from the install CD, there is a 'cd0' appended.) > So, you would probably want "boot hd1a:/b

Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-11 Thread Nick Holland
Eric d'Alibut wrote: > i installed obsd4.5 on a box housing one scsi drive and one IDE drive. > Another unixen is on the IDE. > > The install offered me the choice of sd0 or hd0, so I chose sd0. that's not what it said... would have been "sd0" or "wd0". (ok, I'm being picky, but it might help wi

Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-11 Thread Tony Abernethy
Eric d'Alibut > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Kenneth R > Westerback wrote: > > > Try floppyB or bsd.rd or cdrom. You are probably missing the driver > > for your scsi card. Kinda hard to tell since you have provided no > > information. > > I am booting with teh same floppy I used to do the

Re: Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-11 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > Try floppyB or bsd.rd or cdrom. You are probably missing the driver > for your scsi card. Kinda hard to tell since you have provided no > information. I am booting with teh same floppy I used to do the installation. What do you sugges

Can't boot scsi drive from floppy boot prompt?

2009-06-11 Thread Eric d'Alibut
i installed obsd4.5 on a box housing one scsi drive and one IDE drive. Another unixen is on the IDE. The install offered me the choice of sd0 or hd0, so I chose sd0. When I reboot the machine using the boot floppy (floppy45.fs) I cannot boot the scsi drive. This: > boot sd0a:/bsd and many varia