From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 6 21:06:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25567 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 21:06:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgw1.lmco.com (mailgw1.lmco.com [192.31.106.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25557 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 21:06:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from george.w.dinolt@lmco.com) Received: from emss02g01.ems.lmco.com (relay2.ems.lmco.com [198.7.15.39]) by mailgw1.lmco.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23220 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:06:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from wdl1.wdl.lmco.com ([137.249.32.1]) by lmco.com (PMDF V5.1-10 #20543) with SMTP id <0F2100E4GCUP1J@lmco.com> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:06:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from lmco.com by wdl1.wdl.lmco.com (SMI-8.6/WDL-5.0) id VAA27299; Fri, 06 Nov 1998 21:06:23 -0800 Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 21:06:36 -0800 From: "George W. Dinolt" Subject: Boot Loader question To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3643D55C.DE98C1E7@lmco.com> Organization: Lockheed Martin Western Development Labs MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a question about the new bootloader. I have been using the loader successfully including preloading .ko files and "load -t userconfig_script..." commands with great success. The process seems to work very well. The problem is that I boot several different versions of FreeBSD and like to use a "floppy" to start the boot process off. Different floppies point to different disks or diskpartitions. Currently I have configured a floppy using disklabel -B /dev/fd0 and a boot.config file which contains, for example, the command 3:da(0,a)boot/loader When I boot from the floppy, this causes the loader on my 3rd scsi disk to run. This all works great. I would like to be able to use the boot1 and boot2 from /boot on the floppy. This does not seem to work. When I try the command disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 /dev/fd0 and then boot off the floppy I get an error and the system hangs in the first boot phase. I can, of course, just ignore the problem for the time being, but if/when the new files replace the current ones in /usr/mdec, there could be problems. Anyone have any suggestions? George Dinolt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message