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Date:      Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:49:21 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with picobsd
Message-ID:  <20000415104921.F64727@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000414181409.A25645@sharmas.dhs.org>
References:  <20000414181409.A25645@sharmas.dhs.org>

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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
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