From owner-freebsd-hackers  Sat May  2 11:57:21 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04864
          for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 11:57:21 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04853
          for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sat, 2 May 1998 11:57:14 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from julian@whistle.com)
Received: (from daemon@localhost)
	by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05665;
	Sat, 2 May 1998 11:54:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22)
 via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd005663; Sat May  2 18:54:07 1998
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:48:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Jamie Howard <howardjp@dragon.ham.muohio.edu>
cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Boot floppy.
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980502101748.20537B-100000@dragon.ham.muohio.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980502114515.9447A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

get a regular floppy
format it
disklabel it
(that will add bootblocks, if not use th e-B option ot explicitly add
them)
newfs it
mount it
add one file, (boot.config) with "1:sd(0,a)/kernel" as the contents.
unmount it..
try it..

On Sat, 2 May 1998, Jamie Howard wrote:

> Hi, I'd like to create a FreeBSD boot floppy that will automatically start
> 1:sd(0,a)kernel (or whatever) at start up.  How can this be done?
> 
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
> 


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message