From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 02:16:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DFD37B404 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 02:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m09.mx.aol.com (imo-m09.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151E643F75 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 02:16:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from BelletJr@aol.com) Received: from BelletJr@aol.com by imo-m09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.21.) id z.36.3dcd7db9 (1320); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 05:15:55 -0400 (EDT) From: BelletJr@aol.com Message-ID: <36.3dcd7db9.2bc53ecb@aol.com> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 05:15:55 EDT To: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 116 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to automate this boot process? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 09:16:04 -0000 >> Due to an unresolved problem (with 5.0-Release) that prevents me from booting >> directly from my hard drive, I boot the system with the kernel.flp floppy >> then type the following commands in the loader: >> >> unload kernel >> set currdev=disk2s2a >> boot boot/kernel/kernel >> >> How can I automate this with a dedicated floppy? > >5.0 questions really should be on -CURRENT, but on 4.x I would do this >by setting the commands in /boot/loader.rc... Thank you for your answer. It solved the problem.