From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 30 07:56:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA00472 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:56:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA00452 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:56:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14461(9)>; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:55:57 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27937; Tue, 30 Jan 96 10:55:53 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28600; Tue, 30 Jan 96 10:55:52 EST Message-Id: <9601301555.AA28600@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: booting freebsd 2.1 (and current) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:55:51 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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