Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 22:14:45 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: top: nlist failed on STABLE with a boot floppy Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000809220528.04665d38@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <20000809231957.H48327@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809162508.05e3d500@marble.sentex.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809162508.05e3d500@marble.sentex.ca>
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At 11:19 PM 8/9/2000 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> > newmail# cat boot.config
> > 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
> > newmail#
>
>I think that's the problem; you should use /boot/loader instead of
>/kernel. If the advice to use /kernel is somewhere in the documentation
>let me know and I'll have a look at fixing it.
Thanks, that did the trick! Would this not make a good FAQ entry ? Perhaps
in addition to the "Custom Install Floppy Question." The process is
simple, but not that obvious at first blush. While searching through the
archives, I noticed lots of people asking how to do this as well.
e.g.
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How to make a simple Floppy Boot system disk for your 4.x system
fdformat fd0
disklabel -B -r -w fd0 fd1440
newfs /dev/rfd0a
mount /dev/fd0a /mnt
echo '0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader' >/mnt/boot.config
See loader(8) documentation for more information.
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Thanks to others who sent the info as well!
---Mike
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