From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 3 16:24:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA13980 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:24:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (taob@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca [207.181.89.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA13965 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taob@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca) Received: (from taob@localhost) by tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA19053; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 19:23:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 19:23:46 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao X-Sender: taob@tor-adm1 To: Stefan Bethke cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS Subject: Re: Creating bootable Syjet install disk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Stefan Bethke wrote: > > Have you tried a plain kernel? Maybe it stops booting due to some > other problem. Yep... I made a minimal filesystem from my /, /var and /usr filesystems off my main drive. It boots into multiuser mode just fine. > Unfortunatly, the current Makefile does not allow for building a new > boot floppy, although it would be quite convenient to be able to do > that. It probably would need some work to untangle the boot floppy > build from the release build. The Makefile seems to have some floppy-specific lines in it, although if the bootable CD-ROM is made from the same image, why won't it work on other types of devices? I mean, if you were to take the boot.flp kernel file and copy it to your hard drive, would you expect to be able to boot off of it? -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"