From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 1:31:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from physalis.www.easynet.net (physalis.www.easynet.net [195.40.1.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C52B37B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 01:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by physalis.www.easynet.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 33CD21DBF7; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:31:37 +0100 (BST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: newman@ukonline.co.uk Subject: boot freebsd partition from boot floppy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: EA-Fastmail 0.6 beta X-Sender: newman@ukonline.co.uk Message-Id: <20000907083137.33CD21DBF7@physalis.www.easynet.net> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:31:37 +0100 (BST) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have installed Freebsd 4.1 release. I chose not to install the freebsd boot loader because I have a large disc drive with IBM on-track disc manager, a DDO (dynamic driver overlay) product which helps dos recognise and boot large partitions, and my experience with Linux is that this gets overwritten if I install LILO. I want to boot Freebsd by using a boot floppy that would ideally contain just the first part of the bootstrap process, leaving the kernel in my bootable freebsd / partition (/dev/ad1s2) which is below cylinder 1024 on that disc. Aside from that partition I have some other freebsd partitions on /dev/ad0 which are above cylinder 1024 on that disc. How I can accomplish this? At present I cannot boot freebsd but I do have the install CDrom. Is there a way of creating a boot floppy from booting the install CD-rom and using the post-install configuration options or some other options, or will I need first to make freebsd bootable from the HDD and then make a boot floppy, then re-install the DDO? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message