Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:49:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with picobsd Message-ID: <20000415104921.F64727@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000414181409.A25645@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <20000414181409.A25645@sharmas.dhs.org>
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On Friday, 14 April 2000 at 18:14:09 -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > I'm trying to check if my laptop (pcmcia) works with FreeBSD without > actually installing it (no space left. Linux working fine..). So I tried > out picoBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd). I created a custom floppy > and it boots fine, mounts the MFS file system, but can't find oinit > (the scaled down init). When I mount the filesystem on my desktop, I can > see oinit right there with all the right permissions. > > Anyone here with any experience with this ? Indeed. It took me a week to localize what was going wrong. It's probably the loader script that's changing the search path for init. Take a look at /usr/src/release/picobsd/custom/floppy.tree/boot/loader.rc. That's the only loader file you need, and with that it should boot OK. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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