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From: jhenders@wimsey.com (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD using lilo, Possible?
Date: 6 Dec 1995 12:03:53 -0800
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obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) writes:
>It is a kinda cheesy way, but just to test drive FreeBSD, you can boot from
>the boot floppy you used to install FreeBSD. When you get the boot prompt
>enter the paramters to boot from the drive you installed on. Granted, you
>wont know the proper way to install FreeBSD so it would boot normally with
>your setup, but it would be good for a test drive.
>I have FreeBSD installed on my second IDE drive, so I would use:
>``wd(1,a)/kernel'' at the boot prompt.
Is there any way to get the kernel to load from the boot floppy and
mount a specified hard drive partition as /? I'd like to install FreeBSD
on a scsi drive that's not accessable to the bios.
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John Henders BOFH Wimsey Information Systems.
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