Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:52:20 EST From: "M.C Wong" <mcwong@hotmail.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to make boot floppy ? Message-ID: <19980326065220.1080.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi, This is a real simple question for most of you guys out there. I have installed FreeBSD on /dev/wd2 and /dev/wd0 is fully occupied with another OS. I can get the GENERIC kernel to boot off /dev/wd2 by playing with CMOS setting. But as soon as it tries to mount / onto /dev/wd0a (default) it panics as expected. I think I can make a bootable floppy which let me boot and use mfs as / and mount /dev/wd2a and copy a new kernel with /dev/wd2a configured as root partition onto /dev/wd2a, right ? But I can't quite find how to create a boot disk in the first place for that purpose. Also, half way through the process after booting up with this floppy, I would have to feed in another floppy with the new kernel which I will copy to /dev/wd2a. I believe with the new boot disk of mount / onto mfs is OK for me to swap floppy ? How can I do that ? Any instructions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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