From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 19 14:42:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02343 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 14:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA02313 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 14:42:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0zKUlf-0006Bp-00; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:42:11 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA05246 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:43:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199809192143.PAA05246@harmony.village.org> To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Making a disk bootable under dux Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:43:51 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is it possible to make a FreeBSD disk bootable under DUX? That is, can I install the FreeBSD boot blocks using DUX? I suspect that I'd have to hack disklabel to do the right thing, as well as a special mknode that "copes" with DUX's way of putting special files into the file system. Is there anything fundamentally wrong with this idea? Right now, I have this disk that has all of FreeBSD alpha on it, but don't want to duplicate that on another machine just to netboot the thing to install the bootblocks. Comments? Warner P.S. I'm grabbing sources right now to see how hard this is really going to be... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message