From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 8 6:24:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235C0150C1 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 06:24:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA30763; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 15:30:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3826DD4C.9BD9E93@nisser.com> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 15:25:16 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk References: <199911062057.MAA07266@dingo.cdrom.com> <3825A36E.5920209D@nisser.com> <382682AE.86B03706@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Mmmmm.... how about: > > 1) boot the installation disks until sysinstall comes up. > 2) select the Fixit option (the one that mentiones a shell, y'know) > on the main menu. Alas, won't work. Root is most definitely not the root on the hard disk. You can do thing within the fixit environment but not much else. Also the fixit option is part of the installation menu. A menu that when you exit it reboots the machine. > Granted, this requires either a fixit disk (you got mfsroot and > kern, right? it should be easy to get the fixit) or the cd-rom (I > expect most newbies to have a cd-rom available) for you to be able > to access the root disk "in a sensible way". Actually, I usually install Linuxes and BSDs by FTP, but never mind, I do have a fixit disk. > (You'd otherwise have to go to Custom/Disklabel/Commit, which is... > scary. :-) This is more a leven I can relate too . Actually I'm going to try another tack. I wiped the disk and will now see if I can get it to install, and boot, using raw geometry. This by creating two partitions. The first small enough to reside in first 1024 cyls, holding but one slice with the root partition. The other covering the rest of the disk and containing the rest of the usual slices. Theoretically it ought to work. The question is is the install flexible enough to allow one to create multiple partitions as well as the needed slices within those partitions. There's one way to find out . Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message