Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:40:24 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: "Peter I. Hansen" <peterih@image.dk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot from floppy Message-ID: <20001014184024.E25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <39E900D3.A1E5B883@image.dk>; from peterih@image.dk on Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:56:51AM %2B0200 References: <39E900D3.A1E5B883@image.dk>
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On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:56:51AM +0200, Peter I. Hansen wrote: > Hi > > I just Installed a freeBSD 4.1 on my slave harddrive, and wonder how I > can make a boot floppy for it. > I don't want to write in my MBR because i'm totally paranoid (I've > messed it up before), and would like to make my OS selection by > inserting the right floppy. > I'm currently not able to boot my freeBSD. > > I'm very new tu this OS and need very precise instructions for creating > the floppy. > I have access to a working Linux, and a win98 system. > My freeBSD is installed on the first partition on my slave harddrive. I > think its called ad1sd1 or somethong like that. ITYM, ad1s1. Start with a floppy with the kern.flp image on it. First, nuke some of the stuff on it, # mount /dev/fd0a /mnt # rm /mnt/kernel.gz /mnt/boot/loader.rc The easiest thing to do is to make the system boot from the second drive from the start, # echo '1:ad(1,1,a)/boot/loader' > /mnt/boot.config This is actually how my machine works. I keep a Tripwire floppy in the FDD and I boot from the second HDD (the other drive is FreeBSD-CURRENT). That should be it. As to how to boot up your system in order to make this floppy, put in the kern.flp (I assume that's how you did it?), and hit a key at the very, very begining of the boot process. You should get something like, >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 1:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: Now type in the same string that was placed in boot.config above. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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