From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 10 8:54:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from csun.edu (krusty.csun.edu [130.166.1.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4061737B40A for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from csun.edu (s097n152.csun.edu [130.166.97.152]) by csun.edu (8.9.3 (MessagingDirect 1.0.4)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA1785482 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B9CE246.5080508@csun.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:54:46 -0700 From: Albert Kinderman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Boot Hard Drive from Floppy? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I installed FreeBSD on a partition that begins above 8GB. I can boot to it if I boot the machine (PC) with the mfsroot floppy in the floppy drive. The first response is No /boot/loader I then get a boot prompt with the default being the floppy drive. I instead type in the drive where FreeBSD is installed boot: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel and the boot continues on the hard drive. I would like to create a floppy that has the correct information on it so that the boot starts on the floppy (boot0, 1, and 2 ?) and then automatically moves to the hard drive to continue (/boot/loader ?) What files do I need on my boot floppy to automate the boot process? thanks, Al P.S. at the boot prompt, why don't I have to tell FreeBSD the slice to look for? Are the other partitions (W2000) invisible? Also, sometimes I get a message part of the way through the kernel loading, telling me it can't mount root. I get a prompt where I enter the correct filetype and device: mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad0s3a I'm curious as to why it can find the correct slice most of the time but sometimes need a little help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message