Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 11:52:26 -0500 From: nathan <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: init bootstrap from harddrive Message-ID: <39B6764A.78EBDA8A@telecom.ksu.edu>
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Question: How do I write bootstrap info to my harddrive so that it boots directly into freebsd? Details: It has freebsd on it now, but, i must boot from a disk, and then enter 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader which then finishes booting from the harddrive and all is fine... it works great for what we need it for. Also, this is on a 386SX laptop with 4 MB ram, so using the install program is not an option. I've read fdisk, disklabel man pages, and searched the questions' archive, but i'm a bit hesitant to go issuing those commands considering the effort it took to get fbsd on this system in the first place, i DON'T want to blow away all my work. btw.. i tried using a dos disk with bootinst.exe, and that installed booteasy, but on boot, it just keeps saying "Default Freebsd F?" over and over no matter what i type and doesn't boot anything. And since this 120mb harddrive has ONLY fbsd on it, i don't need a boot mgr anyway. example: DOS: i'd just run 'fdisk /mbr' LINUX: i'd simply do 'lilo' thanks! nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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