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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!frankensun.altair.com!wlbr!news.cerf.net!newsserver.sdsc.edu!newshub.csu.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!news.transport.com!usenet From: connect@transport.com (Bare) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I make an installation kernel? Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:17:56 GMT Organization: Transport Logic, Portland, OR USA. Phone: (503)243-1940 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4ddlji$54b@news.transport.com> References: <4d9gh6$8ab@news1.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pdx55.transport.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) wrote: >I've figured out how to make kernels that see my IDE CD-ROM (kernel.ide on >the FreeBSD 2.1 CD-ROM does not). What I want to do now is make a kernel >that I can use in place of kernel.ide during installation. This has me >stumped. If I just make GENERIC or BOOTMFS kernels (the two configurations >that are included with the kernel source) with my IDE configuration added, >and try to use them to install, they die when they try to mount root, so I'm >guessing that something special is done to the install kernels to let them >work in the pre-install environment. What is that something special? >(I've got enough installed that I can find most of the documentation, but >I'm not familiar enough with BSD documentation to know where to look, so >if its there, just point me to it if this is a dumb question). >--Tim Smith If you are able to boot with GENERIC - log on as root (or go to su). When you are editing the file you started with for a kernel make sure you leave the lines in that will initialize your cdrom . You can look at fstab in /etc to see how generic installed it. You need to mount the cdrom for it to work after your kernel installs. I am not sure about which version of mount you need with an IDE but for my SCSI it goes like this mount_cd9660 /dev/sd0a /cdrom good luck