From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 1 10:15:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.coastsight.com (ns1.coastsight.com [208.46.230.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D8C37B422 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:15:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maillist@coastsight.com) Received: from ns1.coastsight.com ([208.46.230.17]) by ns1.coastsight.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 14udk9-0001HY-00; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:15:21 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 10:15:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Duvall To: Makoto MATSUSHITA Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Set up loader to boot cd In-Reply-To: <20010502020312K.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What about creating a mfsroot.gz as part of that boot floppy image, and mounting that as root, then mounting the cd as /usr on top of that? Let me know if you think that will work.... I don't quite understand how loader works, though.... Handbook doesn't tell me enough. Thanks. Sincerely, Rick Duvall On Wed, 2 May 2001, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > maillist> 4.2-20010119-STABLE > > My sample ISO image (using latest 4-stable) works very fine, booting > from CD and mount CD as root partition. It works pretty well. > > If you have enough bandwidth to fetch 160MB ISO image file, try: > > > Also, I've tried to do with 5-current, kernel *can't* mount CD as a > root partition. If you wanna try how it goes to fail, try: > > > I've sent a email before to current@freebsd.org, does anybody know why > 5-current kernel can't mount my CD-ROM as a root partition? > > -- - > Makoto `MAR' MATSUSHITA > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message