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Date:      Sat, 08 Jul 2000 00:27:27 -0700
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: creating boot floppy
Message-ID:  <4.3.0.20000708002536.020d3848@mail.cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20000708000246.00ad8e88@mail.cpl.net>

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At 12:06 AM 7/8/2000 -0700, you wrote:

>I need to create a boot floppy to boot off a RAID1 array on FreebSD 4.0. I 
>can't seem to do it directly off the drives... so I'll have to do it off 
>floppy until either that box can be upgrade to 4.x-Stable (if that is even 
>the problem) or I find a solution. I just need to load the kernel off the 
>floppy (so I can access the RAID controller), set currdev=disk1s1a, then 
>boot the kernel off that disk. Are there any scripts/examples of how to do 
>this? I've tried messing with loader.rc off the boot floppy, but it 
>doesn't work. It just goes right into the installer....

Ugh.. I hate when I do this. I just created a custom, well practically bare 
except the RAID drivers, and the changes I made to loader.rc allow me to 
boot to the RAID.

Sorry. :)





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