Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 09:34:39 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: more on booting freebsd Message-ID: <9505201634.AA20102@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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Well I moved around my partitions and now have (on ide hard disk2): Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 1 199 100264+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc2 200 200 800 302904 83 Linux native /dev/hdc3 801 801 1613 409752 a5 BSD/386 /dev/hdc4 1024 1614 2484 438984 83 Linux native Now whats involved to boot a system dealing only with floppy disks and not dealing with MBR (especially not on my primary disk...) I have the install disk and the infomagic FreeBSD 2.0 distribution... leisner@compaq$ ls -lL total 3233 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 345 Dec 5 03:14 README -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1228800 Dec 5 02:55 boot_12.flp -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Dec 5 02:56 boot_144.flp -r--r--r-- 1 root root 590848 Dec 5 02:57 cpio.flp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Dec 5 07:18 newer/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 2048 Dec 5 06:14 older/ leisner@compaq$ less README boot_144.flp Boot image for 1.44MB floppies. boot_12.flp Boot image for 1.2MB floppies. cpio.flp Cpio image for either size of floppies. *.gz Gzip'd versions of the above. What is on cpio.flp? When I enter proceed it says: "take out the floppy disk and reboot from hard disk" I want to reboot with the boot loader on the floppy, the the kernel installed on the hard disk... Where is there documentation on the boot loader? Also, how do I increase the timeout on the boot loader...if I don't enter options quickly it starts booting off the floppy (I'm happy to say the kernel is finding most of my hardware correctly...) With Linux, I have a boot and root floppy, and can start a minimal system with the root in ramdisk, then start mounting hard disks to find out whats going on...this works very well...how can I do something similar in freebsd? I also have two ide drives, the second drive has my BSD slice, the first drive is just dos...can freebsd access partitions that aren't in a "freebsd slice?" marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001
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