Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:31:37 +0100 (BST) From: newman@ukonline.co.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: boot freebsd partition from boot floppy Message-ID: <20000907083137.33CD21DBF7@physalis.www.easynet.net>
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I have installed Freebsd 4.1 release. I chose not to install the freebsd boot loader because I have a large disc drive with IBM on-track disc manager, a DDO (dynamic driver overlay) product which helps dos recognise and boot large partitions, and my experience with Linux is that this gets overwritten if I install LILO. I want to boot Freebsd by using a boot floppy that would ideally contain just the first part of the bootstrap process, leaving the kernel in my bootable freebsd / partition (/dev/ad1s2) which is below cylinder 1024 on that disc. Aside from that partition I have some other freebsd partitions on /dev/ad0 which are above cylinder 1024 on that disc. How I can accomplish this? At present I cannot boot freebsd but I do have the install CDrom. Is there a way of creating a boot floppy from booting the install CD-rom and using the post-install configuration options or some other options, or will I need first to make freebsd bootable from the HDD and then make a boot floppy, then re-install the DDO? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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