From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 29 08:23:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA20276 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 08:23:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com ([13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA20256 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 08:23:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14919(5)>; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 08:21:34 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09125; Thu, 29 Feb 96 11:21:33 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12050; Thu, 29 Feb 96 11:21:31 EST Message-Id: <9602291621.AA12050@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Terry Lambert Cc: jerry@border.com (Jerry Kendall), msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, adamm@visual.is.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting kernel from dos In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:35:12 PST." <199602272135.OAA05999@phaeton.artisoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 08:21:27 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Is there good detailed information on how netboot works? What I basically saw was a UTSL strategy. I'm kinda unhappy with the different combinations which I had to use to boot freebsd on different machines... 1) one machine won't boot from fbsdboot -- it wouldn't boot from booteasy -- but it booted if I changed the boot partition in fdisk... (I reinstalled booteasy (bt17?) and then it worked... 2) another machine had freebsd on a ontracked hard disk... It: 1) wouldn't boot from bteasy 2) wouldn't boot from the boot disk 3) booted from fbsdboot when I build a kernel for that device I see there are now translating ide controllers for about $40. Would this solve the ontrack difficulties? -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom