by Georg Bauha » Sun, 29 Mar 1998 04:00:00
Hi,
can s.o. give me advice on how to boot NetBSD i386
when there is no IDE drive attached to the machine
and when the SCSI adaptor (Adaptex 152...)
does not have boot ROM? The system files have been
placed in partitions on /dev/sd1x. Booting from
floppy would be fine.
Or is there anything in the docs?
- georg
by Ignatios Souvatz » Tue, 31 Mar 1998 04:00:00
[Posted and mailed]
for your initial boot, boot from floppy, give the kernel the "-b" run-timeQuote:> Hi,
> can s.o. give me advice on how to boot NetBSD i386
> when there is no IDE drive attached to the machine
> and when the SCSI adaptor (Adaptex 152...)
> does not have boot ROM? The system files have been
> placed in partitions on /dev/sd1x. Booting from
> floppy would be fine.
> Or is there anything in the docs?
Then change the kernel configuration file, replacing
config netbsd root on ? type ?
to
config netbsd root on sd1a type ffs
and build a new kernel; this one will be hardwired to booting from the
disk partition.
(Be sure to have a floppy with a GENERIC kernel around for emergencies).
Regards,
Ignatios
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