Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:40:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "M.C Wong" <mcwong@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make boot floppy ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330093924.24468K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980326065220.1080.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, M.C Wong wrote: > Hi, > > This is a real simple question for most of you guys out there. > > I have installed FreeBSD on /dev/wd2 and /dev/wd0 is fully occupied > with another OS. I can get the GENERIC kernel to boot off /dev/wd2 > by playing with CMOS setting. But as soon as it tries to mount / > onto /dev/wd0a (default) it panics as expected. Odd that it would pick wd0. What does the wdc probe output look like? > I think I can make a bootable floppy which let me boot and use > mfs as / and mount /dev/wd2a and copy a new kernel with /dev/wd2a > configured as root partition onto /dev/wd2a, right ? Sure -- use the boot floppy/fixit floppy or boot floppy/liveFS CROM combo to get you a shell, mount up your FSs, and rebuild. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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