From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 09:41:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08551 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08397 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:40:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA24533; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:40:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:40:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "M.C Wong" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make boot floppy ? In-Reply-To: <19980326065220.1080.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, M.C Wong wrote: > Hi, > > This is a real simple question for most of you guys out there. > > I have installed FreeBSD on /dev/wd2 and /dev/wd0 is fully occupied > with another OS. I can get the GENERIC kernel to boot off /dev/wd2 > by playing with CMOS setting. But as soon as it tries to mount / > onto /dev/wd0a (default) it panics as expected. Odd that it would pick wd0. What does the wdc probe output look like? > I think I can make a bootable floppy which let me boot and use > mfs as / and mount /dev/wd2a and copy a new kernel with /dev/wd2a > configured as root partition onto /dev/wd2a, right ? Sure -- use the boot floppy/fixit floppy or boot floppy/liveFS CROM combo to get you a shell, mount up your FSs, and rebuild. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message