From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 23 5:15:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (blaubaer.kn-bremen.de [195.37.179.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDDC114A05 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 05:15:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (uucp@localhost) by blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id OAA08364; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 14:06:04 +0100 Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.9.3/8.8.5) id NAA73794; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:02:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:02:19 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <200001231202.NAA73794@saturn.kn-bremen.de> To: Stan Brown , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Also-Posted-To: local.list.freebsd.stable Subject: Re: How to make a floppy to boot a kernel on the hard disk? References: <200001222122.QAA08111@loverso.southborough.ma.us> Distribution: local Organization: home X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <200001222122.QAA08111@loverso.southborough.ma.us>, John Robert LoVerso wrote: >I've done this in the past (such as for 3.3-RELEASE) by taking the fixit >floppy image, mounting it, and adding a /boot.config file that has the single >line: > >da(0,a)/boot/loader Although that won't work when the BIOS doesn't see the part of the disk where the root fs is, like in the case of the original poster. Then you can only load the kernel from the floppy and set the loader's currdev (or rootdev). Btw, i played with this a while ago and with a small hack even was able to boot from a SCSI disk with the SCSI BIOS turned off (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=&id=19991212155932.A1107@saturn.kn-bremen.de ) and i then also made an FAQ entry, although it seems that one still isn't in. Regards, -- Juergen Lock (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message