From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 15:25:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finsco.com (ns1.finsco.com [216.0.231.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67BE0114D2 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:25:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billh@finsco.com) Received: from finsco.com by finsco.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA08653; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:18:07 -0600 Message-ID: <36CCA01C.855224CF@finsco.com> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:19:56 -0600 From: Bill Hamilton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rick hamell Cc: wildcardus freakis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1-RELEASE and boot.flp References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Bill wrote: > > > The README says: > > As long as the kernel is compiled with > > ``options MFS'' and ``options MFS_ROOT'', it will properly look for > > and boot an mfsroot.flp image in memory when run (see how the > > /boot/loader.rc file in kern.flp does its thing). > rick hamell wrote: > Well, I got that to work, I think. :) I had to still keep it from > loading the kernal, typed in load -t mfs_root /mfsroot.gz to get it to > come up. But it still bails after seeing my SCSI drive and card. It > dosen't say that it can't INIT SCSI this time, instead it just says that > it's going to reboot. :( > Is there some sort of problem with the da driver that I'm not > aware of? My 2.2.7 system is using the sd driver there which caused me > some confusion at first....:) > Not that I know of. I have not used to 2 floppy method yet. I installed 3.0-RELEASE ok, doing a fresh install. So, the da* just showed up for me and worked fine. I'm thinking of going to 3.1-STABLE soon (elf kernel). I was going to try to set up the 2 floppy boot first. Didn't know it was such a hassle. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message