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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft 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 Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Nov11152118@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <MS.93Nov11184329@james.tools.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu 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.