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From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: How do I make an installation kernel?
Date: 13 Jan 1996 23:51:02 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services
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I've figured out how to make kernels that see my IDE CD-ROM (kernel.ide on
the FreeBSD 2.1 CD-ROM does not).  What I want to do now is make a kernel
that I can use in place of kernel.ide during installation.  This has me
stumped.  If I just make GENERIC or BOOTMFS kernels (the two configurations
that are included with the kernel source) with my IDE configuration added,
and try to use them to install, they die when they try to mount root, so I'm
guessing that something special is done to the install kernels to let them
work in the pre-install environment.  What is that something special?

(I've got enough installed that I can find most of the documentation, but
I'm not familiar enough with BSD documentation to know where to look, so
if its there, just point me to it if this is a dumb question).

--Tim Smith