Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 00:52:01 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Bob Bomar <rbbomar@fly.homeunix.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10203030046560.80522-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020302224214.D13385@fly.homeunix.org>
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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Bob Bomar wrote: > I just put a 40 Gig hard drive in my PII 400. It has an old BIOS, but I have > a new BIOS. The new BIOS does not work, I am going to get it working later. I > am trying to figure out how to make a boot disk so that I can boot FBSD 4.4 Rel > in the mean time. I have a disk that has PicoBSD on it, so I can access the > info on the drive. Can anybody point me in the right direction? > > Thanks > I use a fixit.flp, by itself. I just tell it where to boot from, e.g., at the boot: prompt, I type: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader the first number being the drive and the second the slice. The BIOS has to be set up to boot from a floppy if it finds one, of course. Once you get it to boot from the hard drive, you can put a file in the root directory of the floppy called boot.config with something like: boot: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader in it, so you don't have to type it in every time. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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