Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:05:06 -0500 From: "Robin P. Blanchard" <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hacking installation... Message-ID: <3ABF5AA2.D153F6E9@gactr.uga.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103231243370.62665-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
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the boot floppy has only a /boot/loader.rc which looks like: load /kernel echo \007\007 echo Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: read load -t mfs_root /mfsroot echo \007\007 autoboot 10 i've built my kernel based on the below kernel snippet and replaced the default kernel on the boot floppy with this custom one. the boot process goes along just fine, asks for the mfsroot disk, boots my kernel (and hence sees my scsi controller and devices), then croaks, with: Manual root filesystem specification: <fstype>:<device> mountroot> i would really like to get this damn 486 up and running again... any ideas on how to boot/install this thing? i know for sure that it can be done as i've done it in the past with freebsd-3.5. it just requires using this custom built kernel. what am i still missing? options INET #InterNETworking options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support options MFS #Memory Filesystem options MFS_ROOT options MD_ROOT #options NFS #Network Filesystem options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem options PROCFS #Process filesystem options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options SCSI_DELAY=5000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI > > Did you alter /boot/loader.conf as well? > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: > > > I added MD_ROOT and get the same thing... > > it prompts me for a root device... > > > > > > You actually need MD_ROOT, not MFS_ROOT. -- ------------------------------------ Robin P. Blanchard IT Program Specialist Georgia Center for Continuing Ed. fon: 706.542.2404 fax: 706.542.6546 email: Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu ------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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