From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 31 06:22:34 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA20960 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 06:22:34 -0800 Received: from studioweb.com ([203.3.125.101]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA20954 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 06:22:24 -0800 Received: (from freelist@localhost) by studioweb.com (8.6.11/8.6.12) id AAA00214 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 00:43:24 +1000 From: Greg Holloway Message-Id: <199503311443.AAA00214@studioweb.com> Subject: Problems with booting FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 00:43:23 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 813 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm in the process of converting from linux to FreeBSD and I'm having a few major problems: a. How do I change the floppy boot disk to mount /dev/sd0a as root device? (The boot manager doesn't work with my HD) b. I can boot manually by typing 'sd(0,a)/kernel' at the boot manager prompt, but if I copy /kernel to /kernel.another and type 'sd(0,a)/kernel.another' at bootup, it gives the error "Invalid format!". c. Similar to (b), every time I compile a new kernel, and "make install", when I type 'sd(0,a)/kernel' at bootup, it says "Invalid format!". (The kernel compiles okay and appears to install okay). Any assistance would be *greatly* appreciated. I am very keen to migrate to FreeBSD as I feel it is much more secure and stable than Linux. Thanks Greg H