From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 8:48:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8248815276 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 08:48:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA09361; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:53:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <38230A57.C4A9017D@nisser.com> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:48:23 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: how to boot from floppy disk? References: <199911050509.AAA22650@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > The "Winchester?" What decade did you just walk out of? Things just stick. Besides... hard disk? Yack. > > ... > > So far so good. It breaks down after the system has been loaded. At which > > time the sysinstall Main Menu comes up. I can live with that, but what I > > can without is the fact that it reboots the machine upon exit. > > Why are you using 'boot -c'? Like I said, things stick. Sure, still need to type in visual and there ain't no such flag anymore; but it works, so why change. Besides, it still gets mentioned in the docs. Even in Greg's book! So there . (page 194 of 3rd ed.) > Quite possible. > > However, the boot process changed a bit from 2.2.x to 3.x, and I am > hesitant to tell you what is the "proper" way to do it. improper'll be fine, too > The _easiest_ (possibly not most proper) thing to do is take a copy of > the kern.flp floppy and mount it. Put the exact command sequence you > would enter to boot the way you want (see boot(8) to figure that out) > in boot.conf on the floppy. Alas, won't work (conjecture on my part). Sure, I can change the BIOS device ... BUT ... it won't boot from that device. Don't know why, it just won't. (see a previous message by my hand). Which leaves ... > Using the boot/loader.config (see loader(8)) might be the prefered way > to go now-a-days. Indeedy. It is at that stage that, manually, I can enter the correct params to have it boot. And be locked into the install procedure again. My problem is that I don't know why that happens. Or rather, how to prevent it. What say you? Dump that kernel for my GENERIC one? But then, what is a mfsroot? It does access that diskette before presenting the countdown prompt. I just learned that the creation of a DOS partition would solve my problems, probably. But that means reinstalling from scratch. Not to bad, but I'd rather boot from diskette. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message