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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:35:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com>
To: Chen Xu <xuc@saturn.med.nyu.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Boot Block help!
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Chen,

Great!  I would now like to get it so that when the CD is inserted and the
system is turned on, the user doesn't have to type all the stuff in.  It
will just do it's thing and drop them to a shell (or shell script).  Is
that possible?

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Rick Duvall

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Chen Xu wrote:

> Rick,
> 
> When you get to the point of 10 sec, press the SPACE, that will drop
> you a prompt. Then you do:
> 
> unload 
> set currdev=disk1s1a        (disk1s1a is the boot slice, you milage
> 				may change)
> 
> load kernel		    (kernel is your custom kernel's name)
> boot -s
> 
> That's it.
> 
> Good luck,
> Chen
> 
> 
> * Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com> [010328 13:34]:
> > It still goes into install....
> > 
> > And, when I start an emergency holographic shell on vty4, none of my files
> > are there (including /bin/ls) that I burned to the CD as well.  Looks like
> > when it boots from this image, it only sees the filesystem and files
> > included in the boot.flp image, and not any of the other stuff.
> > 
> > I want to have my own custom kernel to boot to, from the CD, with my
> > customized filesystem.  Kind of like making an emergency restore floppy,
> > except for with a CD instead.
> > 
> > The idea is so that when i leave this company, the average joe blow can
> > just insert the CD, boot from it, and follow the on-screen instructions to
> > do an emergency restore.  I don't want to have to walk somebody over the
> > phone on how to do it the long way.  Ease of use is a necessity.
> > 
> > Thanks for your input.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > 
> > Rick Duvall
> > 
> 


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