Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:21:21 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Matt Adams" <madams@sunshine.scouts.ca>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <madams@scouts.ca> Subject: Re: booting HDD unknown to BIOS with floppy Message-ID: <01092910212106.20245@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <200109281132.AA14418248@sunshine.scouts.ca> References: <200109281132.AA14418248@sunshine.scouts.ca>
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On Friday 28 September 2001 11:32, Matt Adams wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Until recently I've been using Linux on my 486 gateway but have decided
> to, for one reason or another, to move to FreeBSD. The old-style BIOS
> absolutely refuses to acknowledge and boot the 20Gb HDD that's in the
> machine, but I've gotten around that by booting a Linux kernel from
> floppy.
boot0cfg
is the FreeBSD analog to Linux's lilo command.
>
> After installing FreeBSD onto this disk, I've come to the realization
> that I'm not quite sure how to boot the box anymore. The only bootable
> floppy I have is composed of the {kern,mfsroot,fixit}.flp image set.
> When using Linux I'd simply prepare a LILO bootdisk that looks to mount
> the root under a certain device (say /dev/hdb1) after the kernel on the
> floppy is finished (i.e. by passing the 'root=/dev/hdb1' parameter to
> the kernel). The FreeBSD slice on the 20Gb HDD set to /dev/ad1s1
> and the root at /dev/ad1s1b (I hope I've expressed that right).
> Is there a variable I can pass to the FreeBSD loader to specify a
> particular slice to boot from?
>
>
> In a nutshell: I'm curious how I should go about booting FreeBSD on this
> box. Can I do it with the bootable floppies I have from the 4.4 release,
> or is there another way to go about this?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt
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