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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD on 2nd IDE-drive
Date: 11 Nov 1993 20:21:18 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Nov11152118@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
References: <MS.93Nov11184329@james.tools.de>
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In-reply-to: ms@tools.de's message of 11 Nov 1993 17:43:28 GMT
In article <MS.93Nov11184329@james.tools.de> ms@tools.de (Michael
Schaake) writes:
Is there a possibility to boot NetBSD from the second IDE-drive,
for example with a special boot disk?
You could use one of the `boot manager' programs like OS-BS or
BootEasy. I know nothing about them, as I have never used them.
Alternately, you could simply boot using the `kernel copy' floppy and
type the correct path at the prompt.
Boot: [[[fd(0,a)]/netbsd][-s][-a][-d]] :- wd(1,a)/netbsd
You could also hard-wire a default in a special copy of the boot
block. To wit, in boot.c:
part = 0;
unit = drive&0x7f;
maj = (drive&0x80 ? 0 : 2); /* a good first bet */
You could change that to:
part = 0;
unit = 1;
maj = 0; /* 2nd SCSI disk, partition a */
The possibilities are endless.