Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:07:15 -0700 From: "Foster, Jim" <JFOSTER@CSKAUTO.COM> To: aw625@lafn.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "'grog@FreeBSD.ORG'" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: boot.flp problem Message-ID: <BF4A830F5207D2119420006008A1DB147F0822@v128041.vandenberg.af.mil>
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You may need to boot your Western Digital boot floppy and turn off "Floppy Protection" or something like that, and try it again. If you have FreeBSD installed, and you find yourself always having to boot from a floppy (like I do), I have a tip that can help you. Make a second copy of your FreeBSD install floppy Figure out the correct boot parameter to boot your FreeBSD. Doug suggested 'wd(0,a)/kernel'. Personally, I use '1:wd(1,a)kernel' for booting off of the slave drive on my primary IDE controller. After you get FreeBSD booted, mount the floppy 'mount /dev/fd0 /mnt' and edit the file /mnt/boot.config. Edit this file to have one line, which will be your boot parameter. unmount your floppy with 'umount /mnt'. Next time you boot with that floppy, the default boot parameter will be what you typed in. You can still change it at the prompt if you need to, but it will default to you hard drive instead of the floppy. I am not sure why this is not documented anywhere, perhaps it is just "understood". The closest thing I could find in the mailing list archives was to recompile the kernel and build a custom boot floppy. This seems so much easier. Perhaps Mr. Lehey will consider putting this tip in the next edition of "The Complete FreeBSD" ;-). > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug White [SMTP:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu] > Sent: Monday, October 12, 1998 1:39 PM > To: aw625@lafn.org > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: boot.flp problem > > On Sun, 11 Oct 1998 aw625@lafn.org wrote: > > > Imade an installation boot disk following the instructions found at > > www.freebsd.org but am unable to make it work. Can you help? > > > > My computer is a 486 with a 4.0GB hard drive, 16MB ram running MS-DOS > > 6.22. > > > > The installation boot disk was made using the MS-DOs command > > "fdimage boot.flp a:". This was after downloading two files from your > > site, boot.flp and fdimage.exe. > > > > The BIOS on my motherboard doesn't support the 4.0GB hard drive directly > > . I am therefore running EZ-BIOS as installed by the EZ-DRIVE software > > which came with the Western Digital hard drive. > > > > If I attempt to boot from the new installation boot disk following the > > EZ-BIOS procedure I get MS-DOS instead fo FreeBSD. > > > > If I attempt to boot using on-board BIOS procedure I get only strange > > beeping sounds and don't see the EZ-BIOS message at all. > > You'll have to bypass that, I guess. Use the boot floppy and at the Boot: > prompt type 'wd(0,a)/kernel'. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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