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From: james@sol1.east-london.ac.uk (James Andrews, User Support)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: setting up booting manually to boot from 10meg partition
Date: 7 Apr 1993 04:14:51 -0500
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I have two disk controllers and two disks in my ami bois 486sx pc.
The one that is set up for booting at the moment is the 100meg ide disk.
This has a ten meg spare extended dos partition on it which I intend to make
the bootable 386bsd partition.

The remainder of 386bsd could go on the 300meg scsi with adaptec 1542b which
will mount on boot.   I'd also like to use a little of the 300meg disk for
dos stuff, so that will have to be partitioned.

I think this is the most sensible arrangement (apart from having to use the
fastest bits of the scsi disk just for a little dos storage) as if I booted
from the adaptec controller it wouldnt be able to access the ide disk.

To make this work I will certainly need a new kernel with multiple drive
support. I am stuck at an earlier stage though as the install floppy wont
install into the 10meg partition.

What do I need to do manually to make the 10meg partition a 386bsd bootable?
Is it possible to force the install program to help with any of this work?

thanks for reading
james@sol1.uel.ac.uk