From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 18:32:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7D0137BF8B for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:32:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA25716; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:32:09 -0700 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:32:09 -0700 From: Arun Sharma To: Greg Lehey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with picobsd Message-ID: <20000414183209.A25706@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <20000414181409.A25645@sharmas.dhs.org> <20000415104921.F64727@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <20000415104921.F64727@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 10:49:21AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 10:49:21AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. All I have in that loader.rc is: load kernel load -t mfs_root fs.PICOBSD I see a search path on the screen, that includes the location of oinit. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message