Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 09:42:55 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joed@telecom.ksu.edu Subject: Re: 2.2-Beta install Message-ID: <199612302242.JAA12084@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Just a thought if you're every bored (yeah right), I made an attempt to >boot off the floppy drive by booting the hard drive the specifying to >boot off fd(0,a)/kernel (I tried several varients of this line). Reason >for this is because I set the system up to boot on drive C: only for >security reasons. The one time the boot actually started it simply scrolled >errors (can't remember what they were). The installation kernel uses a specially broken bootstrap to save space. It uses rawboot instead of biosboot. biosboot can't handle raw disks :-(. This hack shouldn't be necessary now that 1200K floppies are no longer supported. Bruce
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