Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:48:23 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how to boot from floppy disk? Message-ID: <38230A57.C4A9017D@nisser.com> References: <199911050509.AAA22650@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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"Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > The "Winchester?" What decade did you just walk out of? Things just stick. Besides... hard disk? Yack. > > ... > > 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. > > Why are you using 'boot -c'? Like I said, things stick. Sure, still need to type in visual and there ain't no such flag anymore; but it works, so why change. Besides, it still gets mentioned in the docs. Even in Greg's book! So there <g>. (page 194 of 3rd ed.) > Quite possible. > > However, the boot process changed a bit from 2.2.x to 3.x, and I am > hesitant to tell you what is the "proper" way to do it. improper'll be fine, too > The _easiest_ (possibly not most proper) thing to do is take a copy of > the kern.flp floppy and mount it. Put the exact command sequence you > would enter to boot the way you want (see boot(8) to figure that out) > in boot.conf on the floppy. Alas, won't work (conjecture on my part). Sure, I can change the BIOS device ... BUT ... it won't boot from that device. Don't know why, it just won't. (see a previous message by my hand). Which leaves ... > Using the boot/loader.config (see loader(8)) might be the prefered way > to go now-a-days. Indeedy. It is at that stage that, manually, I can enter the correct params to have it boot. And be locked into the install procedure again. My problem is that I don't know why that happens. Or rather, how to prevent it. What say you? Dump that kernel for my GENERIC one? But then, what is a mfsroot? It does access that diskette before presenting the countdown prompt. I just learned that the creation of a DOS partition would solve my problems, probably. But that means reinstalling from scratch. Not to bad, but I'd rather boot from diskette. 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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