Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 19:40:28 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing boot? Message-ID: <199812041840.TAA01130@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <35704.912728198@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 3, 98 03:36:38 pm"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote... > > So, I took another angle: grabbed kern.flp and mfsroot from FreeBSD > > SNAP251198. Kern.flp boots OK, then asks for the MFSroot floppy. The .gz > > of mfsroot is: 835517 Dec 3 21:11 mfsroot.gz Ungzipping and vnconfig gives: > > /dev/vn0c 2839 2065 774 73% /mnt > > > > So: well over 1.44 Mb floppy size. Question: can the kernel use a gzipped > > mfsroot? > > Yes and no. You're supposed to just load the gzip'd mfsroot from > the boot blocks which will then handle the actual decompression before > the kernel ever sees it. OK, I do: FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision (jkh@beast.cdrom.com, Wed Nov 25 16:13:25 GMT 1998) Memory: 32768 k /kernel data=0x1e3f40+0x26918 syms=[0x8+0x3f210+0x8+0x25192] Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: So, now it wants the mfsfloppy. This comes out of boot.conf: su-2.01# cat boot.conf @load /kernel @echo Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: @read @load -t mfs_root /mfsroot @boot su-2.01# So I insert the mfsroot floppy: Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: load: can't find '/mfsroot' Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. What is it trying to tell me here? Floppy bad? Is the mfsroot.gz a simple file on a UFS formatted floppy or is it dd-ed onto a floppy? Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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