From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 3 19:59:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA26323 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 19:59:12 -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 TAA26317 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 19:58:56 -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 WAA26484; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 22:58:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 22:58:46 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao X-Sender: taob@tor-adm1 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS Subject: Re: Creating bootable Syjet install disk In-Reply-To: <395.883876713@time.cdrom.com> 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, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > You would indeed. I just tried it. :-) After going back and forth for a bit in IRC ;-), it seems that the kernel from the 2.2.5-RELEASE boot.flp *does* in fact work as one would expect: copy /kernel off the floppy to the fixed drive or a removeable drive like the Syjet, and you can boot off that device as the installation media. The kernel from 3.0-980101 does *not* work, however. It hangs as I described before, at the "rootfs is 1440 Kbyte compiled in MFS" boot message, just before it runs sysinstall. I suspect this may be a problem for a bootable 3.0 CD-ROM as well. > If sysinstall ever evolves into something more general, I could even > see some value to copying a /kernel.mfs into the new rootfs on > installation. Then if you wanted to repair something later and your > root fs was still kosher enough to boot the /kernel.mfs, you could > do that instead of messing with a boot floppy. I have /kernel.MFS files all over the place now from my experimentation, and I think I'll just leave them there for this purpose. :) I hate having to scrounge around for a 3.5" disk to make a boot floppy (assuming I even have a machine around to dd the image). -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"