Custom FreeBSD boot floppy??
Dofri Jonsson
imp at hell.is
Sat Oct 25 14:23:48 PDT 2003
Hi.
Go to http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html and download the
BootFORTH demo
(floppy image)
(Direct link: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/bootldr.bin )
Copy it to a floppy (using dd(1)) and you have a boot floppy that you
can mount (it has a ufs filesystem) and customize.
You can also create a bootable floppy manually by following the
instructions in The Handbook, but the picobsd floppy image is a great
starting point for this kind of thing.
Dofri
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 18:44, yo _ wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> The MBR on my hard disk is corrupted (or sometimes is), after re-installing
> FreeBSD it was not overwritten and fixed even though the complete system
> was. So when i need to boot i use the bootcds i used to install FreeBSD and
> at boot0 i press any key (during rapid / - \ - spinnings) and boot my hard
> drive using the command "0:ad(a,0)/boot/loader". When there is a power
> failure, it requires me to go back to the system and repeat the process.
>
> How could i make a custom boot floppy (or even boot cd) to load
> "0:ad(a,0)/boot/loader" automatically, since the MBR never gets repaired
> (however many times i've tried). If this information is already documented
> somewhere, a point in the right direction will be more than sufficient, even
> if the information is about MBR repair and installation of the FreeBSD boot
> loader.
>
> I am using 4.8-RELEASE, thanks to all in advance!
> -Rian Hunter
>
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