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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!think.com!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Will this work (two IDE drives, DOS and *BSD)? Date: 24 Aug 1993 02:41:07 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 26 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Aug23224109@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <CC73xF.8n0@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1993Aug23.164125.1497@fcom.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of Mon, 23 Aug 93 16:41:25 GMT In article <1993Aug23.164125.1497@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: DOS boot works like: DOS MBR(C:) --> DOS BOOT (C:<DOS PARTITION>) --> LOAD FROM DISK(C:<DOS>) What you would need is a modified piece of code for all three places. For NetBSD to boot off the second drive, you'd need a modified MBR on the first drive, then: --> BSD BOOT (C:<BSD PARTITION>) --> LOAD FROM DISK(C:<BSD>) Both of these would have to be changed for BSD to boot from a drive other than the primary drive. I don't understand this last bit. NetBSD's boot blocks know quite well how to load the kernel from a second disk. Type `wd(1,0)/netbsd' at the prompt. The kernel should do the right thing. If it doesn't, it's a bug, and we'll be glad to fix it. I don't know whether boot managers like OS-BS and BootEasy deal with booting from a second drive; I've never had occasion to try any of them.