From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 14 19: 7:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2537737B66E for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 19:07:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opal (cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.101]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA29366; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 22:07:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 22:06:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhiui Zhang X-Sender: zzhang@opal To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: "Peter I. Hansen" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot from floppy In-Reply-To: <20001014184024.E25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> 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 On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:56:51AM +0200, Peter I. Hansen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I just Installed a freeBSD 4.1 on my slave harddrive, and wonder how I > > can make a boot floppy for it. > > I don't want to write in my MBR because i'm totally paranoid (I've > > messed it up before), and would like to make my OS selection by > > inserting the right floppy. > > I'm currently not able to boot my freeBSD. > > > > I'm very new tu this OS and need very precise instructions for creating > > the floppy. > > I have access to a working Linux, and a win98 system. > > My freeBSD is installed on the first partition on my slave harddrive. I > > think its called ad1sd1 or somethong like that. > > ITYM, ad1s1. > > Start with a floppy with the kern.flp image on it. First, nuke some of > the stuff on it, > > # mount /dev/fd0a /mnt > # rm /mnt/kernel.gz /mnt/boot/loader.rc > > The easiest thing to do is to make the system boot from the second > drive from the start, > > # echo '1:ad(1,1,a)/boot/loader' > /mnt/boot.config Should it be: # echo '1:ad(1,a)/boot/loader' > /mnt/boot.config ? -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message