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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uoregon.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!usenet From: millerm@skie.ECE.ORST.EDU (Mike Miller) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Will this work (two IDE drives, DOS and *BSD)? Date: 31 Aug 1993 02:30:53 GMT Organization: College of Engineering, Oregon State University Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <25ud4tINN5gh@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> References: <MYCROFT.93Aug27141713@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: skie.ece.orst.edu Keywords: dos ide > In article <BRAD.93Aug26091051@stemwinder.FCR.COM> brad@FCR.COM (Brad > Parker) writes: > 4. when I boot from the second IDE drive, the boot tracks ask me > (yea!) what drive/file to boot from. I enter "wd(1,a)/netbsd". > > Works like a champ. (but, it would be nice if one could configure a > default boot disk/file) Wow! That's a lot of work to get it going. I just put my NetBSD drive first and my Dos drive second and when I want to boot dos I just stick in a boot disk that contains the shell=c:\command.com line so that the command.com on c: is used. Because the NetBSD disk is a non-dos partition dos ignores it and calls the second hard drive c:. The floppy can then be removed until a dos reboot needs to take place. I havn't used NetBSD much but I have had success with this configuration (and I have a friend who it has worked for as well). Any objections? :-) Mike Miller | The time has come, the walrus said, millerm@skie.ece.orst.edu | To talk of many things. >=^/>