In the last episode (Aug 17), Sergey Lyubka said:
> > The best you can do is search your mountpoints and see whether any of
> > them has a "/kernel" file. The bootblock (and loader) uses the BIOS to
> > read the kernel file, so it's possible that the device may not even be
> > accessible from the running system. If, for example, you booted off a
> > floppy but didn't have the floppy drivers in the kernel.
>
> Yes, that makes sense, the boot device may not be even accessible.
> As I said, I am running picobsd-like system, it's / embedded into kernel
> so / mountpoint is /dev/md0 :-)
What might work is reading the first 512 bytes of
/dev/{da0,ad0,fd0,cd0} and see if any of them have your picobsd
bootblock. Then you know where the filessytem holding /kernel is and
can mount it yourself.
--
Dan Nelson
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