From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 13 14:18:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2A237B496 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:18:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B565F4DE; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:18:44 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Ugen , "G. Jason Middleton" Subject: Re: boot floppy: trying again Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:18:43 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3AD763F9.DB3B25C9@xonix.com> In-Reply-To: <3AD763F9.DB3B25C9@xonix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01041313184300.13679@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 13 April 2001 12:39, Ugen wrote: > And again - i have boot floppies made out of images boot.flp and > mfsroot.flp. I am compiling a new kernel (on some other FreeBSD box), > gzipping it and replacing the kernel on boot floppy with this new kernel. > This new kernel panicks as soon as it begins to load. This same new kernel > does not panick when booted from the harddrive. > Question - what if anything should i configure so that kernel will boot > from the floppy (and in particular from the modified boot.flp) > > Any takers? > --Ugen > > "G. Jason Middleton" wrote: > > what is your question? how to make boot floppies? > > > > not worded very well. > > > > Jason > > > > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Ugen wrote: > > > Ok, so nobody knows much :))) > > > Let's make it a simpler question - is there anything out of ordinary > > > that has to be configured for an installation floppt kernel (to boot > > > from floppy, read mfs_root and go into sysinstall)? > > > --Ugen You should boot and install with the kernel that comes with the floppy set. Then you can build whatever kernel you need on the running system. Beech ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message