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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:20:57PM +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> What's c? ide@3/disk looks exactly right for the internal drive. (I |
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> suppose c is the floppy?) |
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> And, instead of 'show-disks' you can use 'show-devs' and see everything. |
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> Then you will see what's on your external card if the system can see it. |
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> (It should be another ide@?/disk, I would think.) |
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The problem here is that the add-on card was made for PCs not for |
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Sun/Apple gear and therefore does not have OBP firmware on it. Cards |
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without such firmware cannot be used for booting. |
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> Perhaps a solution is for you during the install to put the /boot |
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> partition onto the internal drive and install the boot loader there. |
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> (This should work fine unless you need to preserve it.) |
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> Then put / onto the external drive, and follow the installation |
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> guide for setting up the configuration. |
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This would work. |
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Keith M Wesolowski |
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"Site launched. Many things not yet working." --Hector Urtubia |
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