[syslinux] syslinux/memlinux to boot FreeBSD boot.flp?
Mathias Koerber
mathias at koerber.org
Sun Jul 7 00:22:16 PDT 2002
Hi all,
I am trying to boot a FreeBSD installation on a system which
a) has no FD nor CD
b) only a HD and a DiskOnChip (www.msys.com)
The current boot environment uses a modified Syslinux (1.62) that knows
a magic ´swap´ kernel which will boot off the HD as the DOC
steals the HD´s device# (or so I am told). This allows the
syslinux on the DOC to offer special boot options before
falling back to a normal HD disk boot.
boot.flp is a 2.88MB boot floppy image directly from FreeBSD´s floppies
subdir.
I have tried
a) directly booting the floppyimage by renaming it boot.cbt
label fbsd
kernel boot.cbt
I get a message that the image is of the wrong size
b) using memdisk (from syslinux 1.75)
label fbsd
kernel memdisk
append image=boot.flp
It tells me that the image/kernel is invalid
Can Syslinux boot arbitrary floppy images, and if so how?
The DiskOnChip currently is seen under Linux as /dev/msys/fla1
I could partition it so that a second partion /dev/msys/fla2
is available, onto which I could copy boot.flp. Would I
be able to configure something like lilo´s ´other = ´ to
then boot that image?
Does anyone have any other idea how I could get FreeBSD onto this
system?
thanks
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Mathias Koerber
mathias at koerber.org
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