Hi,sorry to bother you^-^ I have a problem about the loader of freebsd I put loader,kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz in an ext2(dos) file system on harddisk,and hope to directly use grub or use grub and loader(or other means?) to boot the system. When I use grub to transfer loader,I find it(freebsd loader) can't read files in ext2(dos) file system,and when i use grub 0.93 of redhat 9.0 to directly load mfsroot.gz by "initrd /mfsroot.gz",it fails with "linux kernel must be loaded before initrd". My goal is to put install.cfg,freebsd kernel and mfsroot on harddisk,then boot from harddisk into freebsd,and install it from original freebsd cd. Any one helps? any answers are appreciated.^-^ _________________________________________________________________ ÓëÁª»úµÄÅóÓѽøÐн»Á÷£¬ÇëʹÓà MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn
Oliver Fromme
2005-Jan-26 06:27 UTC
Use loader to load kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz in ext2 filesystem?
?? ?? <ppmmssgg@hotmail.com> wrote: > I put loader,kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz in an ext2(dos) file system on > harddisk,and hope to directly use grub or use grub and loader(or other > means?) to boot the system. > > When I use grub to transfer loader,I find it(freebsd loader) can't read > files in ext2(dos) file system,and when i use grub 0.93 of redhat 9.0 to > directly load mfsroot.gz by "initrd /mfsroot.gz",it fails with "linux > kernel must be loaded before initrd". > > My goal is to put install.cfg,freebsd kernel and mfsroot on harddisk,then > boot from harddisk into freebsd,and install it from original freebsd cd. Why are you trying to use ext2fs (or msdosfs)? Is there a reason why you cannot use UFS? I suggest you use UFS. There's no need to use GRUB at all. I also wonder why you don't boot the installation from CD in the first place. Since you use a CD anyway ... Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 M?nchen Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "Clear perl code is better than unclear awk code; but NOTHING comes close to unclear perl code" (taken from comp.lang.awk FAQ)