From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 22 12: 7:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from netcom.com (netcom16.netcom.com [199.183.9.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509FA14C10 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:07:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@netcom.com) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by netcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA29191 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:07:40 -0800 (PST) From: Stan Brown Message-Id: <200001222007.MAA29191@netcom.com> Subject: How to make a floppy to boot a kernel on the hard disk? To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Stable List) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:07:40 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry to trouble this list again. It seems that my posts to questions must be connected to /dev/null. I brought home a machine over the weekend to set up for work on Monday, unfortunately the hard disk (or the disk controller in it) is bad. To try to determine which I tried installing a disk I had at home. Problem i the machine is an old 486, and the disk I am trying to use is a 20G. I can boot off the install disks, and get FreeBSD installed, but it won't boot, because the BIOS is too confused to pass any useful information. Is there a way to build a floppy loader, or some sort of boot disk that will boot the kernel on the hard disk, and mount the root partition on the hard disk as / I n=know I can do this in Linux using LILO, so surely we have a way to do this? I am running out of time here, and got no response whatsoever from the questions list over that past 2 days. and have been unable to find anything applicable to this in the FreeBSD book. Could some kind soul please give me a pointer here? Thanks, and again I apologize for posting this to this list. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message