Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 08:41:43 -0500 (EST) From: hometeam <hometeam@techpower.net> To: Andreas Gustafsson <gson@araneus.fi> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building boot floppies Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902080824220.47983-100000@techpower.net> In-Reply-To: <199902081321.PAA12367@guava.araneus.fi>
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You need to compress the kernel before copying over if your making a new boot floppy with new boot blocks. Then mount floppy after booting in boot.conf you can add the currdev=diskx option then at boot time you will not have to enter the command manually. Just gz the kernel I don't know if this is the perfect way ...I do know it works.. On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Andreas Gustafsson wrote: > I'd like to build a customized FreeBSD boot floppy, but I keep running > into problems. Here is what I've tried so far: > > 1. My first thought was to try the 3.0-RELEASE fixit floppy to see > whether I could modify it to suit my purposes. This failed due to the > bug already reported in PR #9051. > > 2. I found a procedure for building an emergency boot floppy in the > "backup" section of the FreeBSD handbook > <http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook139.html>. This didn't work > either, because I could not get all the files to fit on the floppy > even though I built a stripped-down kernel with only the most > essential device drivers. I thought the kernels on boot floppies were > generally compressed, but these instructions don't seem to mention > compression at all - why? > > 3. After upgrading to 3.0-STABLE, I tried building a PicoBSD "net" > floppy. This failed, too: > > ... > strip crunch1 > Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/sup/src/release/picobsd/net/crunch1 > ln: /mnt/stand/reboot: File exists > -> ERROR while building ../net/crunch1... > -> Aborting ./populate > # > > Is there any working, documented way of building a FreeBSD boot floppy > without doing a full "make release"? > -- > Andreas Gustafsson, gson@araneus.fi > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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