> I seem to be unable to boot from locally-compiled bsd.rd (i386). I > have triple-checked everything I'm doing against release(8) > instructions and tried both 5.2 -stable and release CVS tags; the > result is the same: "panic: cannot open disk, 0x1100/0x2f02, error 22"
Let me guess. You have compiled RAMDISK, copied that to bsd.rd, and tried to boot it, didn't you? Compiling RAMDISK is not enough for it to work. You need to put a filesystem in it afterwards - this is what the machinery within src/distrib/ does. Miod
