Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 17:47:37 +0500 From: "Sergey A. Ivanov" <lw@pd.chel.ru> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, swhite@gov.za, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Custom boot disks Message-ID: <3741.000504@pd.chel.ru> In-Reply-To: <200003301653.IAA25027@ptavv.es.net>
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Hello Kevin,
Thursday, March 30, 2000, 9:53:48 PM, you wrote:
>> > I have several systems with broken PCI chipsets that I need to upgrade to
>> > 3.4-R from 2.2.7-R. I've patched 'pcibus.c' to fix the problem on these
>> > systems (reversed the config mode probe order) but now I need to build
>> > boot/install stiffies to get these machines up and running. Is there any
>> > quick/simple way to do this without going through a 'make release'
>> > process?
>>
>> Just make a kernel and make sure you keep "options MFS" and "options
>> MFS_ROOT" in there. Then whap it over the kernel on kern.flp, which
>> you can mount as a normal floppy.
Can i make custom floppies for 4S same way?
I want to use new sym driver...
KO> One step Jordan forgot to mention is that you need to gzip the kernel
KO> file before trying to move it to the floppy or it will never fit!
KO> Of course this is pretty obvious from the name of the kernel file on the
KO> floppy...kernel.gz.
KO> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
KO> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
KO> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
KO> E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
Best regards,
Sergey mailto:lw@pd.chel.ru
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