Subject: Re: how to boot the installed system from a floppy?
To: Pierre-Philipp Braun <pwbr@club-internet.fr>
From: Roine Thunberg <artee@astrakan.hig.se>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/16/2002 07:42:12
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 04:07:18 +0100
> From: Pierre-Philipp Braun <pwbr@club-internet.fr>
> To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: how to boot the installed system from a floppy?
>
> Hi all, i'm new to netbsd.
>
> Due to hardware problems i have to boot my system from a floppy.
>
> With boot1.fs floppy, 'boot wd0:netbsd' doesn't match at boot prompt so
> i probably need a special boot floppy to mount the installed system.
>
boot wd0a:netbsd
you need to specify partition too, if you installed it on primary
partition on the first disk.
/Roine
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