Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:08:16 +0100 From: "Richard Jansson" <staukey@aland.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Creating a boot diskette that does nothing but boot from hard disk Message-ID: <01f701c51a39$46b5e130$6a0270c2@terminator> References: <1132187297.20050223212827@wanadoo.fr>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Atkielski" <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:28 PM Subject: Creating a boot diskette that does nothing but boot from hard disk > Is it possible to create a boot diskette that does nothing more than > boot from a specific hard disk? How would I go about doing so? > > If I can't figure out why my system won't boot from the hard disk on its > own, I figure that perhaps I could create a diskette to pop into the > machine that would simple boot immediately from the hard disk. It > shouldn't require much code and should easily fit on a single diskette. > > The method I'm using at the moment of changing floppies for ten minutes > then entering the loader and changing parameters and booting is much too > awkward. > > -- > Anthony > > I now that there is a boot loader named fatload you can find it on http://www.vortex.prodigynet.co.uk/boot/index.html you can install it with dd. If that dont work you can write a program that loads a sector (boot sector) to your RAM memory and then jump there. Sounds simple but you musst not forget that you should switch to protected mode from real mode. But I think fatload will work just fine. Good luck! _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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