Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 16:30:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: imp@village.org, peter@netplex.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Subject: Re: HEADS UP: FLAG DAY COMING (was Re: New aout-to-elf build failures.) Message-ID: <199901020030.QAA01084@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Jan 1999 19:26:20 EST." <199901020026.TAA02768@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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> Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> wrote: > > 3: Build a new floppy with the new bootblocks, new boot loader and see that > > it works on your system. To do this: > > 1: get a formatted floppy ready > > 2: disklabel -Brw -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 /dev/rfd0.1440 fd1440 > > 3: newfs -T fd1440 /dev/rfd0.1440 > > 4: mount /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt > > 5: mkdir /mnt/boot > > 6: cp /boot/loader /mnt/boot/loader > > 7: cp /kernel /mnt/kernel > > 8: touch /mnt/boot/boot.conf > > 9: umount /mnt > > Thanks for the directions. This works fine on my laptop with fd drive, > but my home system doesn't currently have a floppy drive. It has a > LS120 (wfd) drive and the same floppy doesn't work on it. It can't > find /boot/loader. I suspect wfd support isn't built into boot2.c > yet? Actually, it *ought* to work at that point. It wouldn't suprise me if you had trouble booting with the LS120 as the root device, but I can't see why boot2 can't find the loader. What do you get if you type '?' at the boot: prompt? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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