name@portia.Stanford.EDU (tony cooper) (03/01/90)
Can anyone tell me how I can make a floppykernel starting from the kernel code in the Device Drivers Kit? A floppykernel is one that looks for the root filesystem on a floppy instead of on a SCSI device. There is a floppykernel in the installation kit but it only has a device driver in it for the Apple SC 40 tape drive. I want a floppykernel that contains my driver for my DAT drive since in the event of having to restore my system from a disk crash I don't want to have to do it using Apple's drive. I have tried adding my driver by using the floppykernel as "newunix" but that does not work since the symbols have been stripped from the floppykernel. Tony Cooper tony@popserver.stanford.edu
davide@cs.qmw.ac.uk (David Edmondson) (03/02/90)
Don't start with a blank kernel take one which is running and
you are happy with. Copy it to temp and run kconfig on it
"kconfig -n /tmp/unix". What you need to change is ROOTDEV so
the appropriate incantation is ROOTDEV=0x0500. Use ftp or
whatever to get your kernel onto a MacOS disc and run it by
typing "launch -fm macdisc:unix" to sash.
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