Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:42:39 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable under dux Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809201140500.392-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199809192207.IAA21892@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, John Birrell wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > Is it possible to make a FreeBSD disk bootable under DUX? That is, > > can I install the FreeBSD boot blocks using DUX? I suspect that I'd > > have to hack disklabel to do the right thing, as well as a special > > mknode that "copes" with DUX's way of putting special files into the > > file system. Is there anything fundamentally wrong with this idea? > > Right now, I have this disk that has all of FreeBSD alpha on it, but > > don't want to duplicate that on another machine just to netboot the > > thing to install the bootblocks. > > >From DUX, the "easy" thing to do is dd a disk image that already has the > boot blocks on it. > > It's probably worth waiting a few weeks for things to settle down after > the rush to beat the beta freeze for 3.0. The easiest thing is to boot a recent NetBSD install disk and use it to install their boot blocks on the FreeBSD disk. You can change over to FreeBSD boot blocks at your leisure since they both load elf kernels just fine. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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