Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 04:43:03 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: how to boot from floppy disk? Message-ID: <38225247.EE0821DA@nisser.com>
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Having been spoiled by slackware which sports a handy facility that allows one to boot from a couple of floppy disks but still have the root be the winchester, I'm wondering if such a trick can be done with FreeBSD as well. What I've tried thusfar is to boot the kernel diskette, then let it load the MFS root disk. At the prompt "Hit [Enter] to boot ..." I press space. At the prompt I give "rootdev=disk1s1a:", followed by "boot -c". This sort of works. I mean, I can eject the floppy before executing the boot command and it'll still boot. Clearly from the winchester. So far so good. It breaks down after the system has been loaded. At which time the sysinstall Main Menu comes up. I can live with that, but what I can without is the fact that it reboots the machine upon exit. Even that wouldn't have been so bad had the emergency shell at least had the decency to have the intended root. It doesn't. The fixit option is also pretty much useless for my purposes in that it roots to the floppy disk. Therefore, is it possible to boot from floppy and if so, how? Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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