From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 18:19:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A78E37B792 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:19:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA65024; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:49:21 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:49:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Arun Sharma Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with picobsd Message-ID: <20000415104921.F64727@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000414181409.A25645@sharmas.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000414181409.A25645@sharmas.dhs.org> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 14 April 2000 at 18:14:09 -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > I'm trying to check if my laptop (pcmcia) works with FreeBSD without > actually installing it (no space left. Linux working fine..). So I tried > out picoBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd). I created a custom floppy > and it boots fine, mounts the MFS file system, but can't find oinit > (the scaled down init). When I mount the filesystem on my desktop, I can > see oinit right there with all the right permissions. > > Anyone here with any experience with this ? Indeed. It took me a week to localize what was going wrong. It's probably the loader script that's changing the search path for init. Take a look at /usr/src/release/picobsd/custom/floppy.tree/boot/loader.rc. That's the only loader file you need, and with that it should boot OK. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message