RE: Bootable CD Problems
Hi, Am really interested in having a go at doing this myself. Can you point me to a readme or faq to get me started ... I'm afriad not. I couldn't find anything about the topic; I had to invent most of it by just knowing how the startup process works, and how to burn bootable images. If I can make headway, I may try and do an article or something, but for now there isn't anything out there I can find. Sorry. -- Signed, Dan Harrison ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable CD Problems
Well it depends on how you've done the bootable CD. I havent played with one since about 4.6.2, but I believe someone portedthe LIVECD-1.2 to english from portugues which would have made things easier. The MFSROOT is specified in the kernel you put on the CD, so it depends what you have it set as, and how you've stored your information on the CD. I always had problems trying to compile the MFSROOT into the kernel itself so hacked it around by loading the file system in through the boot loader instead. That's interesting. Do you remember how you did it? So depends how you've built it, and what/where its failing. I can't really tell; that's the problem. As I said before, it says Mount root file system from cd9660:acd0 and then hangs without any more messages. I read the things another guy posted which apparently is evidence for a buffer overrun or something like that, but I'm not sure. Id recommend just grabbing the LiveCD stuff Fugspbr made. It worked fairly simply for me, though track down the english version, as I know there is one around somewhere. http://www.fugspbr.org is the original Brasilians that made a liveCD building script. I went to the site, and they sent me to their archives. I found a link to sourceforge, but I can't read any of it. Are you sure there is an English version anymore? Anyway, I would like to know how you loaded the filesystem in through the boot loader if you could tell me; this may be a solution for me. -- Signed, Dan Harrison ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable CD Problems
Hello Dan, you are the fourth person except me, who has this problem and wrote it to the list. FreeBSD is still doing nothing with it - is it such big problem to solve it ? There is no useful advice yet, what can we do - nobody knows ? Peter Rosa If you're saying it's a bug in the system that a bootable CD won't mount, that's lousy. If you're making a general remark about the lack of information on the topic, I'll keep trying. If you're saying something else, please elaborate. -- Signed, Dan Harrison ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions
I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.8 on a system which will boot it and also Windows 2000 Server. I've done this with two multiboot utilities: the simple boot manager that comes with FreeBSD and V Communications' System Commander. In both cases, I have found that when I install FreeBSD it corrupts neighboring NTFS and FAT partitions. After the install, the OSes in these partitions fail to boot or the partitions become entirely unreadable. Whether I tell FreeBSD not to install an MBR or whether I tell it to install its boot manager, the result is the same: Neighboring partitions are being corrupted to the point where one can not get to data on them. I realize that dual booting is not common, but I need to do it on this laptop. Has anyone else on the lists encountered this problem? Yes. I had it corrupt a copy of Win XP on a desktop I installed it on. My solution, I'm sorry to say, was to get another hard drive and re-install Windows on that. If I wanted to use windows, switch the hard drives in the OS detect order in the BOIS. :\ I don't know how practical it is on a laptop, but I wanted to tell you that you are not alone. Good luck. -- Signed, Dan Harrison ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
