From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 12:15:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7697137B40F for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:15:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA38247; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:10:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Joseph Wright Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting freebsd from floppy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Joseph Wright wrote: > I have freebsd 4.4 installed on my second hd and win2000 on my first(primary) hd. What I want is to be able stick a disk in the machine and boot freebsd from floppy instead of using the boot manager but if there is not a disk in it will boot win2000. > > I have both os's installed and it boots to win2000 but what do i type at the ok: prompt to boot from the second slice of the second hard drive. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message In 4.3 and 4.2, the following work for me. I make a standard fixit.flp. It cannot itself boot, but it comes up with a boot: prompt with a default to boot from a floppy. at this prompt I do the following: boot: 1:da(1,a)/boot/loader Once I get the boot string right, I put it in the root directory of the floppy (exactly the line above) in a file called kernel.conf That floppy (which no longer works as a fixit.flp) should now boot directly into the FreeBSD installation on the hard drive. The fixit floppy works for me in 4.4 (I have FreeBSD on a second hard drive (but only if I enter the stuff at the boot: command). Let me know if it works for you. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message