Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 22:06:50 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: "Peter I. Hansen" <peterih@image.dk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot from floppy Message-ID: <20001014220650.F25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0010142205260.25202-100000@opal>; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:06:37PM -0400 References: <20001014184024.E25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0010142205260.25202-100000@opal>
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:06:37PM -0400, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > > 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 ? That will work too. However, in the syntax I used, the second "1" is for the slice. You can specify which slice to boot from starting back in 3.<mumble>. However, it looks like it is still undocumented. If you only have one FreeBSD slice on a disk, the specification is not needed. If there is more than one, IIRC, the first one boots. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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