From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 19:20:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A595D37B791; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:20:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (chimp [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA13673; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 22:20:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000809220528.04665d38@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 22:14:45 -0400 To: Ben Smithurst From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: top: nlist failed on STABLE with a boot floppy Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20000809231957.H48327@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809162508.05e3d500@marble.sentex.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809162508.05e3d500@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:19 PM 8/9/2000 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: >Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > newmail# cat boot.config > > 0:ad(0,a)/kernel > > newmail# > >I think that's the problem; you should use /boot/loader instead of >/kernel. If the advice to use /kernel is somewhere in the documentation >let me know and I'll have a look at fixing it. Thanks, that did the trick! Would this not make a good FAQ entry ? Perhaps in addition to the "Custom Install Floppy Question." The process is simple, but not that obvious at first blush. While searching through the archives, I noticed lots of people asking how to do this as well. e.g. --------------------- How to make a simple Floppy Boot system disk for your 4.x system fdformat fd0 disklabel -B -r -w fd0 fd1440 newfs /dev/rfd0a mount /dev/fd0a /mnt echo '0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader' >/mnt/boot.config See loader(8) documentation for more information. ------------------- Thanks to others who sent the info as well! ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message