Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:48:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Stephan van Beerschoten <stephanb@whacky.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootdisk and still boot from disk ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10109271140440.43188-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010927115658.B40113@enigma.whacky.net>
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: > I feel such a newbie again after 4 years of extensive FreeBSD usage, but > I never have been in a situation before where I needed to do this: > > I wonder what setting I have to change in the FreeBSD bootloader prompt > to use the kernel which resides on the floppy to boot my actual system. > > I tried setting the rootdevice to something that should be my disk, but > it doesn't seem to work. This is a faily basic question so I hope no > additional information is needed about my environment. > > Thanks for your time ;) > -Stephan It's not clear to me what you want to do. If you want to use a floppy but boot from the kernel on the hard drive, you can use a fixit.flp by itself. A fixit.flp is not itself bootable, but when the boot: prompt comes up you can enter the appropriate incantation for the drive and slice from which to boot, eg: boot: 0:ad(2,a)/boot/loader Once it works, you can put a file in the root directory of the floppy named kernel.conf with the appropriate line (including boot: ) in it, and booting with the floppy in the drive will then boot from the hard drive. This is useful to bypass all boot managers on the system. The altered fixit.flp will no longer work for its intended purposes unless you delete the kernel.conf file. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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