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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!news.provo.novell.com!park.uvcc.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: Will this work (two IDE drives, DOS and *BSD)? Message-ID: <1993Aug25.211614.1162@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT References: <MYCROFT.93Aug23224109@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Aug24.200723.26095@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <CCA9t4.us@veda.is> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 21:16:14 GMT Lines: 31 In article <CCA9t4.us@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes: >terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > >>As to the load from another, drive, yes, Julian's boot blocks support you >>typing in the drive and partition (if you already know it and enjoy typing >>in that syntax) -- but you'd have to be the best typist in the world to get >>it typed in on my machine in the timeout period before autoboot. My machine >>gives almost 0 delay (50MHz EISA, 0 wait state, 9ms drive on 1742 SCSI). > >Isn't it enough to type _anything_ in the delay period and then you have as >much time as you like for correcting the line before pressing the return key? >Surely there is enough time to hit one of the keys (for instance, near the >middle of the keyboard) before it auto-defaults to the first disk. It probably would be if typing anything in the boot didn't cause my keyboard to go away -- yes, I can type it if I type it real fast and at exactly the right time -- what a pain. Plus, doing this will hardly cause my machine to come back up by itself after a power failure *having to be there to boot is my biggest gripe), and it still does nothing about the length and/or nastiness of the command I'd have to type. Yet another reason to hack your own boot code. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.