Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:34:01 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Pawel Worach <pawel.worach@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: installing 6.0 over the network Message-ID: <42E44189.9000100@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <42E4395F.6040806@gmail.com> References: <42E43589.6030009@elischer.org> <42E4395F.6040806@gmail.com>
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Pawel Worach wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > >> however what I want is to make it boot into sysinstall rather than >> booting >> into init.. >> how do I make is do this? >> > > I had to modify disc1/boot/loader.conf to look like this > > mfsroot_load="YES" > mfsroot_type="mfs_root" > mfsroot_name="/boot/mfsroot" > vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0" > > so that it loaded the floppy mfs root image from disc1/boot/mfsroot.gz > which started sysinstall as init. Last time I tried this was with > 5.4-RELEASE but it should still work. maybe the initpath can be changed.. that would be even simpler.. wouldn't even require the mfsimage in that case.home | help
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