From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 7: 8:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netcom.com (netcom12.netcom.com [199.183.9.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E40014EF2 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 07:08:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@netcom.com) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by netcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA17268 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 07:08:21 -0800 (PST) From: Stan Brown Message-Id: <200001221508.HAA17268@netcom.com> Subject: Second request, can I build a floppy to boot the kernel on the hard disk from? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:08:21 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i am trying to get a machine set up for work on Monday. Turns out the 1.2G dsk I brought home for this machien is bad. I put a 20G I had in to allow me to continue, but I can't get the BIOS to see it well enough to allow me to bootfrom it (old 486 machine). Could someone please tell me how, or point me to docs, no building a boot floppy that will boot the kernel on the hard disk, and mount hte hard disk root partiton as /? I would _greatly_ appreciate som help on this. The FreBSD book did not give me any guidance on this. I know you can do this in Linux using LILO, surely we can do it to? Thanks. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message