Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-04 Thread Brian Dean
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

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-01 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
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 y

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-01 Thread Rick Duvall
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, Ri

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-01 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
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: ftp://current.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ISO-IMAGES/li

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-01 Thread Rick Duvall
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

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-01 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
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,

Set up loader to boot cd

2001-04-30 Thread Rick Duvall
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 boot.