Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:55:51 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: booting freebsd 2.1 (and current) Message-ID: <9601301555.AA28600@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
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I have freebsd running on a machine (which also runs linux and win95). When I use fdisk to select where I want to boot (from dos and/or freebsd) it boots as expected. When I boot from a floppy disk, I have to quickly enter wd(0,a)/kernel or else I boot from the floppy... I really want to get fbsdboot going (I like the strategy, I boot linux from loadlin). When I used booteasy (the canned installation), it wouldn't boot properly (it printed some gibberish after the first line...I haven't tried this in a while...) When I boot fbsdboot, it prints the size lines, then does nothing and then reboots. fbsdboot does the same whether I boot a dos based kernel or from the boot tracks...the winboot (not sure what its called) did the same things (although it correctly described /dev/sd0a, so it must read the disk properly...) I played with turning off himem/emm386 on dos...still no luck... I understand linux compressed kernels piggybacks an uncompressor onto it and expands it in ram at the right address. In addition the same image I boot from loadlin works fine if I cat (or dd if you insist) onto a floppy and boot it. rdev lets me interact with the kernel to say which boot device I want... How can I get the same functionality with freebsd...currently I'm booting off a floppy and quickly entering wd(0,a)/kernel... Is there a way to default to wd(0,a)/kernel? marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001 -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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