Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:50:16 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "George W. Dinolt" <george.w.dinolt@lmco.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Loader question Message-ID: <199811070750.XAA00452@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 21:06:36 PST." <3643D55C.DE98C1E7@lmco.com>
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> 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.
Ok. Have you considered something like this:
set choice=1
echo "1 - FreeBSD 2.2"
echo "2 - FreeBSD-current"
read -t 10 -p "Select >>" choice
set currdev=disk${choice}s1a:
source /boot/boot.conf2
in the default boot.conf, and then the 'real' boot instructions in
/boot/boot.conf2?
> 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.
Firstly, the new files won't be replacing the old ones in /usr/mdec;
the directory will be going away.
However, to help you we need to know *what* the error is.
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