Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:09:39 -0800 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Making a boot floppy Message-ID: <330BF8B3.7358@u.washington.edu>
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Here is what I have done.
fdformat -ted a new disk.
disklabel -ed the disk.
newfs -B the disk with out setting -s -b args. This puts the boot
blocks from /usr/mdec on the floppy right?
mounted floppy successfully.
copied /kernel to the floppy succesfully.
REBOOT kernel started to load but eventually resulted in kernel panic
- no init.
made a miniscule tree on the floppy including /sbin/init /etc/rc
/etc/ttys /dev/console /dev/ttyv1 /dev/ttyv2
REBOOT resulting in no kernel panic (yaaahoo) but resulting in system
hang (boohoo)
The man page on the init program is sufficiently vague that I cannot
determine what is missing on my floppy that is needed to support boot.
I know that FAQS say rawrite dist.fs and then delete rm -rf. I want
to know how to make this work more that just wanting it to work.
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