Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:02:54 -1000 From: "Randal S. Masutani" <randal@comtest.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, dinesh@alphaque.com, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IDE Flash Works!, but need some advice. Message-ID: <199808062058.KAA05895@oldyeller.comtest.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808060757100.19334-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> References: <199808052348.NAA04396@oldyeller.comtest.com>
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I got the IDE Flash to boot PicoBSD! It took me some time to get the IDE flash formatted with UFS and transfer PicoBSD to it. I am not sure what the best way to do it but here is what I did: 1. Created a different version of PicoBSD floppy, changed lang/mfs.rc and lang/update references to the floppy drive(/dev/fd0c) to reference the IDE flash(/dev/wd0s1) instead. 2. Used a FreeBSD 2.2.6 install floppy(boot.flp) and used sysinstall to label the IDE Flash, but it didn't newfs it, because it complained about unable to complete install or something.(I'm not sure how to do this properly) 3. booted PicoBSD(normal version) from floppy. 4. mounted another floppy with newfs on it and newfs /dev/wd0s1. 5. now I was able to mount the IDE Flash. 6. mounted the IDE version(step 1 above) PicoBSD boot floppy and just cp the kernel and etc files over to the IDE flash. 7. then just reboot and let it boot directly out of IDE flash(no floppy). 8. now I can save updates of /etc files to IDE flash. Features of the system: PC/104 cpu card with, ALi's 6117 386-40MHz CPU, 8MB RAM, IDE, floppy, 2 serial, 1 parallel, ethernet(Crystal CS8900), keyboard, 8MB FFS Flash drive(note: this onboard flash drive can only be accessed through BIOS calls, I am currently not using this feature.) I added a separate 10MB IDE Flash module that plugs directly into the IDE header on the PC/104 card. The system bios will first try to boot from floppy then ide. I need some advice of a better way to format the IDE flash and transfer PicoBSD to it? Randal Masutani ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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