From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 06:22:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7818316A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:22:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from legolas.alcom.aland.fi (legolas.alcom.aland.fi [194.112.1.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6126B43D1F for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:22:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from staukey@aland.net) Received: from aragon.alcom.aland.fi (aragon [194.112.0.1]) j1O6MlTp005109 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:22:47 +0200 Received: from terminator (dial1-106.aland.net [194.112.2.106]) by aragon.alcom.aland.fi (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j1O6MUTg028794 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:22:42 +0200 Message-ID: <01f701c51a39$46b5e130$6a0270c2@terminator> From: "Richard Jansson" To: References: <1132187297.20050223212827@wanadoo.fr> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:08:16 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Alcom-AS: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:22:43 EET X-Alcom-AV: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:22:47 EET Subject: Re: Creating a boot diskette that does nothing but boot from hard disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:22:49 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:28 PM Subject: Creating a boot diskette that does nothing but boot from hard disk > Is it possible to create a boot diskette that does nothing more than > boot from a specific hard disk? How would I go about doing so? > > If I can't figure out why my system won't boot from the hard disk on its > own, I figure that perhaps I could create a diskette to pop into the > machine that would simple boot immediately from the hard disk. It > shouldn't require much code and should easily fit on a single diskette. > > The method I'm using at the moment of changing floppies for ten minutes > then entering the loader and changing parameters and booting is much too > awkward. > > -- > Anthony > > I now that there is a boot loader named fatload you can find it on http://www.vortex.prodigynet.co.uk/boot/index.html you can install it with dd. If that dont work you can write a program that loads a sector (boot sector) to your RAM memory and then jump there. Sounds simple but you musst not forget that you should switch to protected mode from real mode. But I think fatload will work just fine. Good luck! _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"