Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 10:30:35 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca> To: FREEBSD-HACKERS <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Creating bootable Syjet install disk Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980103101402.26225S-100000@tor-adm1>
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I want to create a bootable Syjet disk with an install kernel that
sets up root in MFS, goes straight into /stand/sysinstall, etc., etc.
There is enough room on a disk to fit several snapshots of FreeBSD,
the entire packages collection, all ports, XFree86 installation
tarballs, and a boot kernel.
Copying boot.flp's kernel to the Syjet and booting it doesn't
work. It hangs at the "rootfs is 1440 Kbyte compiled in MFS", just
before /stand/sysinstall runs.
I looked through /usr/src/release/Makefile and couldn't figure out
how to make it build a kernel that would work from, say, /dev/sd0 or
/dev/sd0 (if it is in fact possible for it to dynamically determine
which device to use). Is the Makefile for rolling a CD image
available somewhere? I assume that uses a slightly different kernel
than the one on floppy.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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