From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 14 15:27:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2ED615660 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bradyn@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 14 Jan 2000 23:27:06 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 23:27:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Niall Brady To: Claude Buisson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting a hard disk kernel from a floppy bootloader... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That worked perfectly (using 0:wd(1,a)/boot/loader for me did the trick) Many thanks for your help! -- Niall On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Claude Buisson wrote: > >I boot from a floppy to my second SCSI disk, with: > >1:da(1,a)/boot/loader > >in boot.config (on the floppy) > >At home I use the same schme to boot from the third IDE disk > >That is the floppy is just used to load /boot/loader from the hard disk. >On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Niall Brady wrote: > >> I've being having some problems preparing a boot floppy which will allow >> me to boot the hard disk kernel, by booting off the floppy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message