Subject: Re: Boot kernel from floppy & mount hard drive.
To: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@media-city.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/29/1997 17:43:44
	Config a kernel with root on wd0 (or sd0) and put it
	onto the floppy - it'll ignore the fileystem on the
	floppy and just run straight from the HD...

                David/abs               abs@anim.dreamworks.com

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On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Alicia da Conceicao wrote:

> Greetings NetBSD users:
> 
> Does anyone know how to create a bootable floppy disk (1.44 MB) so that
> it can boot a kernel from the floppy disk, and mount all of the file-
> systems (including root) from the hard drive.  In addition I wish to
> have it so that doing the boot, NetBSD executes the netstart, rc,
> rc.local, etc. from the mounted hard disk root partition, and not from
> the floppy.
> 
>      I know how to create a bootable floppy and have it load a kernel
> off of it.  I can even load a file-system from another floppy, but not  
> from the hard disk.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Sincerely, Alicia.
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