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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy ?
Date: 5 May 94 18:07:10
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: avega@pax.inria.fr's message of 5 May 1994 08:02:11 PST
In article <2qb5a3$of4@sophia.inria.fr>
avega@pax.inria.fr (Andres Vega Garcia) writes:
* How can I generate a boot floppy ?
*
* I've just recompiled a new kernel 386BSD (FreeBSD-1.1-GAMMA) but
* I wonder how to test it safely.
You can take the kcopy_*.flp and filesyst.flp from the floppies/
subdirectory and dd them into floppies to make bootable floppies (just
answer "no" to the "do you want to proceed with the installation?"
prompt when you boot from them), but if your whole purpose is to test
a new kernel, you don't need them.
What you can do is "mv /386bsd /386bsd.old" and then cp the new kernel
into the root directory, and then reboot. If something goes wrong,
reboot the machine again, and type "/386bsd.old" at the :- prompt (you
have a couple of seconds to type this, otherwise it will go with the
default kernel, i.e., /386bsd).
Satoshi