From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 15:36:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA23193 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:36:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA23188 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:36:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.18]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15281(1)>; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:35:31 PST Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com [13.231.133.90]) by www.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id RAA22900; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 17:50:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA01411; Wed, 5 Feb 97 17:49:56 EST Message-Id: <9702052249.AA01411@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Doug White Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing snapshot 10/14 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Feb 1997 23:56:12 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:49:55 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Rebuild your kernel and change the 'kernel' line to point to the proper > device. > > You should be able to boot with the boot floppy by typing wd(2,a)/kernel > at any boot: prompt. Well, I tried this... 1) booting from the boot disk with wd(2,a)/kernel gets into an infinite loop error (can't find device) Errox: ...0x82 2) I built my 8/14 kernel with: config kernel root on wd2 Then I put it on a dos disk and did: fbsdboot -r -D .\kernel and the kernel booted, and then paniced "can't mount root" Is there a way to configure a kernel so it doesn't automatically reboot after this panic (I don't have the time to copy the stuff it printed out). Doing ' ? ' at the boot prompt on the hard disk shows a good file list... I'm confused at wd1 and wd2...when booting up, the kernel messages says: wd0 (one type of disk) wd2 (another type of disk) but at the kernel boot line I have to do: wd(1,a)/kernel On a non-LBA disk, what I did was made a very small root partition on the first drive (under 528 MB) and mode of the bsd stuff is on the second drive: leisner@compaq.home;df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 34059 13843 17492 44% / /dev/wd1s4e 138463 75759 51627 59% /usr /dev/wd1s4f 138711 56146 71469 44% /usr/local procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc I may stick the release on disk1...its a relatively clean system running a combination of OS2s/win95/linux with space and partitions...but shouldn't I be able to boot cleanly off another ide disk? -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom