Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:12:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Custom Bootable CD III: Loader Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104271003350.42944-100000@ns1.coastsight.com>
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I am getting there! I got floppies/boot.flp off of the install cd, recompiled my kernel to have: pseudo-device vn Ran vnconfig -s labels -C vn0 boot.flp mount /dev/vn0 /mnt cd /mnt rm kernel.gz cp /etc/kernel.GENERIC /tmp/kernel gzip /tmp/kernel mv /tmp/kernel.gz /mnt rm -r /mnt/boot cp -R /boot /mnt/boot cd / umount /mnt vnconfig -u vn0 mkisofs -o cd.iso -b boot.flp cd Copied the ISO to my windows box, burnt it to a CD with Adaptec EZ CD creator, and booted. The sucker actually loads the kernel now! Whoo hoo! Now, I need some help grasping the concept of how loader works with a boot CD and a 2.88M floppy image. I don't know whether the root filesystem comes from a .gz file in boot.flp, or if the cd9660 filesystem on the CD can be mounted as root. Any input on this is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Rick Duvall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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