Did you already try going into your BIOS's setup and see if there is an option to set boot devices? Mine (From around 2000 - 2001) allows me to set up to 4 devices in priority. I set mine to:<br>Floppy, CDROM, 1st IDE, 2nd IDE.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean LeBlanc</b> <<a href="mailto:seanleblanc@comcast.net">seanleblanc@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So I was all set to upgrade my old, old, FreeBSD installation on one of my<br>boxes - backed up config files, important data etc.<br><br>Then I hit a speed bump - it doesn't want to boot from CDrom? Hm, this box<br>is from 2000, but I'm pretty sure that worked before. Shrug. So I made boot
<br>floppies, and try to boot from those.<br><br>Oops, floppy error 02b0. The speed bump turns into a show-stopper. What does<br>that mean? Googling...turns out that some people can fix this by swapping<br>out the floppy drive and/or cable. Tried getting an older floppy drive, then
<br>swapped in another cable, too. No dice. Another proposed solution is to get<br>a controller and have that drive the floppy. Where would I get the cheapest<br>possible controller that does this? I've thought about getting a
<br>newer/bigger drive (current one is only 20g) + controller to drive it - do<br>they typically have a floppy controller on these cards?<br><br>--<br>Sean <a href="mailto:LeBlanc:seanleblanc@comcast.net">LeBlanc:seanleblanc@comcast.net
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