From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 30 11:15:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mg137-078.ricochet.net [204.179.137.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DA437BCF9 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:15:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00391; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:56:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003301756.JAA00391@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: swhite@gov.za, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Custom boot disks In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:08:06 PST." <94087.954410886@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:56:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Don't forget to gzip it first, as it probably won't fit otherwise. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message