Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 23:22:14 -0600 From: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting question Message-ID: <19970216232214.21349@gaffaneys.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970216181456.19500A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>; from Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> on Feb 02, 1997 at 06:15:00PM -0800 References: <c=US%a=_%p=OnLive?_Technolo%l=SLAVE-970217020417Z-3172@slave.onlive.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970216181456.19500A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
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On Feb 02, 1997 at 06:15:00PM -0800, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Bill Northlich wrote: > > Hi, > > The manual says that the FreeBSD root file system must be within the > > 1st 504 mb. of the disk, else booting wont work (p. 27). However, > > could I put it out on the end of the disk and boot from floppy every > > time? Thanks, > Yeah. Just a few points: yeah it does work, and it's harder to install if you don't have a wd0 disk. I seem to have a broken BIOS in my SCSI controller (it doesn't recognize any of my devices on boot, works great after the kernel gets done with it). Since I rarely reboot, this isn't much of an inconvenience. Basically, the situation is: The boot option '-a' appears broken. It's supposed to ask for a root device sometime during boot. This forces you to use '-r' to mount a root other than the boot device, meaning you have to use a line: 'config root on <device>' (wd0 in GENERIC). So if you have to put your root device on something other than wd0, you have to jump through a couple hoops during the install to also build a new kernel during the install. -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the only | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing form of culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.
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