On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:31:22AM -0700, Rick Duvall wrote:
I am trying to make a custom boot CD for FreeBSD. I got it to the point
to where the CD will boot, load the kernel, but that's as far as it
get's. It does when it get's to the part where it wants to mount the root
devicd. It
maillist So, do I need to vnconfig the boot.flp and put my own custom
maillist loader in it or what? I don't want to be puting -C in every
maillist time I boot. Also, when I put in -C, the kernel will load,
maillist but then can't find the CD device
Which FreeBSD version you are using,
4.2-20010119-STABLE
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote:
maillist So, do I need to vnconfig the boot.flp and put my own custom
maillist loader in it or what? I don't want to be puting -C in every
maillist time I boot. Also, when I put in -C, the kernel will load,
maillist but
maillist 4.2-20010119-STABLE
My sample ISO image (using latest 4-stable) works very fine, booting
from CD and mount CD as root partition. It works pretty well.
If you have enough bandwidth to fetch 160MB ISO image file, try:
What about creating a mfsroot.gz as part of that boot floppy image, and
mounting that as root, then mounting the cd as /usr on top of that?
Let me know if you think that will work
I don't quite understand how loader works, though Handbook doesn't
tell me enough.
Thanks.
Sincerely,
maillist What about creating a mfsroot.gz as part of that boot floppy
maillist image, and mounting that as root, then mounting the cd as
maillist /usr on top of that?
Simply 'mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /usr' (or whatever CD device) after
booting a kernel is not enough for you? I've not tried
I am trying to make a custom boot CD for FreeBSD. I got it to the point
to where the CD will boot, load the kernel, but that's as far as it
get's. It does when it get's to the part where it wants to mount the root
devicd. It tried to access the floppy drive.
So, do I need to vnconfig the
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