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Subject: more on booting freebsd
Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 09:34:39 PDT
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@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