On 25/09/2007, at 1:57 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
Hello,
Okay so here is the situation:
Server has dead fd and cd drives, or maybe none at all. You want
to install FreeBSD
on it.
The idea I had was to create a small partition, copy the contents
of a cd into, set it
to boot off that partition, reboot and it would boot up into
sysinstall.
Would this be possible? Or is it a dumb idea?
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The problem with this approach is, you actually need to boot the
FreeBSD kernel to continue with the install. Just by marking a
partition as bootable, will not make it boot, and neither copying
the FreeBSD CD contents will. You have to write a suitable boot
sector that will load the rest of the OS, be it DOS, Windows,
FreeBSD or whatever. And the fact remains, to install FreeBSD you
have to boot into the FreeBSD kernel.
Okay, well say I used some tools to create a UFS partition, put the
contents of the Boot Only iso on it and put the FreeBSD
boot loader program into the MBR (it's boot0?) how could I get it to
load the kernel? There seem to be a number of different
boot straps, boot, cdboot, pxeboot etc, on this iso image..
I experimented with this on an existing installation and for some
reason the slice I created to boot into the basic environment
to install from ended up booting the existing installation instead of
the version in the slice it was booting from?!
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