Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:32:33 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com> To: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Block help! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103281028500.74975-100000@ns1.coastsight.com> In-Reply-To: <01032809211302.02971@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>
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It still goes into install.... And, when I start an emergency holographic shell on vty4, none of my files are there (including /bin/ls) that I burned to the CD as well. Looks like when it boots from this image, it only sees the filesystem and files included in the boot.flp image, and not any of the other stuff. I want to have my own custom kernel to boot to, from the CD, with my customized filesystem. Kind of like making an emergency restore floppy, except for with a CD instead. The idea is so that when i leave this company, the average joe blow can just insert the CD, boot from it, and follow the on-screen instructions to do an emergency restore. I don't want to have to walk somebody over the phone on how to do it the long way. Ease of use is a necessity. Thanks for your input. Sincerely, Rick Duvall On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Wednesday 28 March 2001 08:49, Rick Duvall wrote: > > I am trying to write boot blocks to an ISO image to burn to a cd with > > mkisofs. From what I have found, I should use the boot.flp and > > boot.catalog files. However, when i boot from the CD, it takes me to the > > install. I don't want that. I want it to just take me to a shell prompt > > in single user mode so that i can run my restore routines to restore my > > system. > > > > Any help with this is greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Rick Duvall > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Boot from the CD...when you get to the boot prompt type: > > boot -s > > The machine will boot into single user mode and give you a shell. > > Hope this helps, > > Beech > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Beech Rintoul - Network Manager - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission > \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 > X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 > / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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