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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Can I boot from an AHA1542C with an IDE on board? Date: 1 Oct 1993 15:18:50 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <28hhoq$ir5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CE2MtK.HFu@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <289vfk$ks9@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <CE5vz3.EHD@latcs1.lat.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CE5vz3.EHD@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, M.C. Wong <wongm@ipc6.lat.oz.au> wrote: >In article <289vfk$ks9@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes: >>If you are using 'new' boot blocks, then you will want to boot from > > What do you mean by new boot blocks ? Where can I get it ? Does it >comes from FreeBSD ? How about the 386bsd to FreeBSD upgrade kit, does >it contain this ? FreeBSD contains the new boot blocks. However, the upgrade script does NOT install them for you by default. They are trivial to install, but I'd rather not take the blame for screwing up a system in case of a bad install, so I *will not* modify my script to install them. But, if you want to, you can. :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me