From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 7 07:20:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA07685 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 07:20:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vega.pfts.com (vega.pfts.com [193.193.196.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07655 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 07:20:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from max@vega.pfts.com) Received: from vega.pfts.com (big_brother [192.168.1.1]) by vega.pfts.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15057 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:24:59 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from max@vega.pfts.com) Message-ID: <366BF1E0.F4856A7F@vega.pfts.com> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 17:18:56 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems with -r boot options on FreeBSD 2.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running FreeBSD-Stable 2.7 and want to build bootable system on Iomega Zip drive (parallel port). Since this drive doesn't support direct booting, I created bootup floopy disk using fixit floppy image from distribution. I put my custom kernel on this floppie compiled with option "config  kernel root on da0c", where da0c is my Zip Drive interface. So I put other system files on zip, connect it all and try to boot my floppy. First time it didn't working and after spending some time on reading man I found that I need to specify "-r" option on boot prompt (this option tells the kernel to mount as / partition specified on compile time rather than fd0 from which it actually booted). Ok it works now, however when I try to automate this process by creating boot.config file on my floppy with line "fd(0,a)kernel -r" this does nothing i.e. kernel after that defaulting to fd0c instead of da0c. Any glue? Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message