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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
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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.         >=^/>