Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 22:58:46 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Creating bootable Syjet install disk Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980103224726.26225a-100000@tor-adm1> In-Reply-To: <395.883876713@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> You would indeed. I just tried it. :-)
After going back and forth for a bit in IRC ;-), it seems that the
kernel from the 2.2.5-RELEASE boot.flp *does* in fact work as one
would expect: copy /kernel off the floppy to the fixed drive or a
removeable drive like the Syjet, and you can boot off that device as
the installation media.
The kernel from 3.0-980101 does *not* work, however. It hangs as
I described before, at the "rootfs is 1440 Kbyte compiled in MFS" boot
message, just before it runs sysinstall. I suspect this may be a
problem for a bootable 3.0 CD-ROM as well.
> If sysinstall ever evolves into something more general, I could even
> see some value to copying a /kernel.mfs into the new rootfs on
> installation. Then if you wanted to repair something later and your
> root fs was still kosher enough to boot the /kernel.mfs, you could
> do that instead of messing with a boot floppy.
I have /kernel.MFS files all over the place now from my
experimentation, and I think I'll just leave them there for this
purpose. :) I hate having to scrounge around for a 3.5" disk to make
a boot floppy (assuming I even have a machine around to dd the image).
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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