Re: Boot Floppy Creation

[<lars.fricke@web.de>]

>I make the kernel with the changes to IRQ etc and compile and
> gzip them cp to the floppy (I need to do a network/ftp install with non std
> NIC). This then boots OK but towards the end of the boot process rather than
> setting up the disks it tries to mount /root and fails with error 19.

I took the opportunity to try it firsttime here and found the following hints:

First, install crunchgen and copy it in your path. This little helper resides in /usr/src/distrib/crunch/

Some info in: http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0204/msg02248.html

Second,  look at:

http://www.null.ca/OpenBSD/BootDisk.html

I only configured the RAMDISK-Kernel (no compile necessary!) and did make in
/usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/ramdisk/ - nothing more of the nifty stuff mentioned in the link.

That did it for me and created an already compressed floppy31.fs

Because i don't really need a boot image right now you could perhaps be so kind to test the remaining parts (dd it to floppy and install) :)

hth

Lars