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Subject: Re: Custom boot disks 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:55:50 +0200."
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:08:06 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> I have several systems with broken PCI chipsets that I need to upgrade to
> 3.4-R from 2.2.7-R. I've patched 'pcibus.c' to fix the problem on these
> systems (reversed the config mode probe order) but now I need to build
> boot/install stiffies to get these machines up and running. Is there any
> quick/simple way to do this without going through a 'make release'
> process?

Just make a kernel and make sure you keep "options MFS" and "options
MFS_ROOT" in there.  Then whap it over the kernel on kern.flp, which
you can mount as a normal floppy.

- Jordan


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