Re: Booting FreeBSD directly

[Luca Abeni]

Hi Jeff,

thanks for your help. I am sorry for not posting all the details of my
hardware configuration, my menu.lst, and so on... I did not do it because
I've seen that my problem was already described in the ``BUGS'' file
(hence, I thought it was useless to describe an already known problem).

> Here is a stanza from my "menu.lst" that boots FreeBSD,
>
>     # Entry 3:    FreeBSD 4.2 production [sd1s2]
>     title   FreeBSD 4.2 production [da1s2a]
>     root     (hd2,1,a)
>     kernel   /boot/loader
>     #root     (hd2,1)
>     #chainloader +1
This works for me too, thanks. What I wanted to do was to load FreeBSD
directly (using ``kernel /kernel'' instead of ``kernel /boot/loader'').

As suggested by Okuji, I will try to have a look at the loader's and
FreeBSD's source code.

                                Thanks,
                                        Luca
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Luca Abeni
PhD Student in Computer Engineering
Retis Lab
Scuola Superiore S. Anna
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