Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:09:39 -0800 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Making a boot floppy Message-ID: <330BF8B3.7358@u.washington.edu>
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Here is what I have done. fdformat -ted a new disk. disklabel -ed the disk. newfs -B the disk with out setting -s -b args. This puts the boot blocks from /usr/mdec on the floppy right? mounted floppy successfully. copied /kernel to the floppy succesfully. REBOOT kernel started to load but eventually resulted in kernel panic - no init. made a miniscule tree on the floppy including /sbin/init /etc/rc /etc/ttys /dev/console /dev/ttyv1 /dev/ttyv2 REBOOT resulting in no kernel panic (yaaahoo) but resulting in system hang (boohoo) The man page on the init program is sufficiently vague that I cannot determine what is missing on my floppy that is needed to support boot. I know that FAQS say rawrite dist.fs and then delete rm -rf. I want to know how to make this work more that just wanting it to work. -- __ __ / 0\ / 0\ Thank you * Highperformance.net ) Wannabe Sysadmin * The homeless domain )-------( Jason Wells * "Pardon me sir, spare some bandwidth?" \_____/ -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 owEBqQBW/4kAlQMFADL6i3KNL/e/LcfTaQEBMpYD/1fGPervFuXq29BKaBfOXB42 jV4rHGby+/1WUc6cUB1oUV7IKz7cUHRs/e2kWiJmg9yuJr7nag67Rowhc4Ea0BDe cc2fJ6E9xEhjWbJ1okMjFUmnFsINfO1lIEftBKTrwsRWCegtFMWYkDrbKYqdfA8R VbbSa47zTZ1zFUgmlQEvrA9iCWJsYW5rLnR4dAAAAAA= =li6b -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
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