Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 10:15:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com> To: Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Set up loader to boot cd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105011014020.4300-100000@ns1.coastsight.com> In-Reply-To: <20010502020312K.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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What about creating a mfsroot.gz as part of that boot floppy image, and mounting that as root, then mounting the cd as /usr on top of that? Let me know if you think that will work.... I don't quite understand how loader works, though.... Handbook doesn't tell me enough. Thanks. Sincerely, Rick Duvall On Wed, 2 May 2001, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > maillist> 4.2-20010119-STABLE > > My sample ISO image (using latest 4-stable) works very fine, booting > from CD and mount CD as root partition. It works pretty well. > > If you have enough bandwidth to fetch 160MB ISO image file, try: > <URL:ftp://current.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ISO-IMAGES/live-releng4.iso>; > > Also, I've tried to do with 5-current, kernel *can't* mount CD as a > root partition. If you wanna try how it goes to fail, try: > <URL:ftp://current.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ISO-IMAGES/live-current.iso>; > > I've sent a email before to current@freebsd.org, does anybody know why > 5-current kernel can't mount my CD-ROM as a root partition? > > -- - > Makoto `MAR' MATSUSHITA > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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