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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA803 ; Sun, 07 Feb 93 19:00:56 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!infoserv!lila!dorsey From: dorsey@lila.com (Bill Dorsey) Subject: booting from a second drive Message-ID: <C1z287.27y@lila.com> Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, Inc. Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 10:52:54 GMT Lines: 23 I just finished moving 386bsd to its own IDE drive. DOS lives on the first drive, and 386bsd on the second. Now, 386bsd booted just fine when the drive it resided on was the first drive. I figured after I hooked both drives up, I could use the pboot program to boot 386bsd from the second drive. Well, I hooked everything up, skimmed over the instructions for pboot, and then installed it. I rebooted my system and got a menu that listed a DOS partition as partition 1, and empty partitions for the remaining 7 entries. Shouldn't 386bsd occupy one of positions 5-8? Selecting any of these menu items just got me a beep from my speaker and nothing was loaded. If anyone else out there has 386bsd booting from a second drive, I'd appreciate hearing how you did it. If I don't figure this out soon, I guess I'll just have to install a root partition back on drive 0 and go back to using fdisk (yuk) to switch back and forth between DOS and 386bsd. -- Bill Dorsey "Most people mistake law for justice and authority for dorsey@lila.com liberty. You will hear them talk of 'liberty under law,' PGP 2.x public and they are content to see it so deep under the law that key on request it is completely obliterated." -- Herbert Spencer