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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting from floppy Date: 30 Oct 1996 08:51:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5574v7$9li@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <E01KG6.20t@bechtel.com> <555ncs$fsn@library.airnews.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E roycet@airmail.net (Royce Tidwell) wrote: > As long as the boot order in your bios is set to check the floppy > first, all you have to do is reboot with the floppy in the drive. ...but you gotta manually enter wd(0,a)/kernel there, since it will boot the kernel off the floppy otherwise. It's certainly possible to patch the default in the bootblock. Right now, i leave this as an exercise to the reader ;), the pointers are: cd /sys/i386/boot/biosboot (edit around) make clean all install (insert any formatted floppy) disklabel -Brw fd0 fd1200 Actually, only the first 15 sectors of the floppy will be used, the remainder is totally unimportant. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)