Re: Custom boot disks
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:08:06 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have several systems with broken PCI chipsets that I need to upgrade to 3.4-R from 2.2.7-R. I've patched 'pcibus.c' to fix the problem on these systems (reversed the config mode probe order) but now I need to build boot/install stiffies to get these machines up and running. Is there any quick/simple way to do this without going through a 'make release' process? Just make a kernel and make sure you keep "options MFS" and "options MFS_ROOT" in there. Then whap it over the kernel on kern.flp, which you can mount as a normal floppy. One step Jordan forgot to mention is that you need to gzip the kernel file before trying to move it to the floppy or it will never fit! Of course this is pretty obvious from the name of the kernel file on the floppy...kernel.gz. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: Custom boot disks
I have several systems with broken PCI chipsets that I need to upgrade to 3.4-R from 2.2.7-R. I've patched 'pcibus.c' to fix the problem on these systems (reversed the config mode probe order) but now I need to build boot/install stiffies to get these machines up and running. Is there any quick/simple way to do this without going through a 'make release' process? Just make a kernel and make sure you keep "options MFS" and "options MFS_ROOT" in there. Then whap it over the kernel on kern.flp, which you can mount as a normal floppy. Don't forget to gzip it first, as it probably won't fit otherwise. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
