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From: simonm@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Marlow)
Subject: Re: Possible to run from second IDE drive only?
Message-ID: <CJGxx0.KG4@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.
References: <RICHV.94Jan10120323@hpingll.cup.hp.com> <CJGr7n.CKD@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 14:07:47 GMT
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richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

> In article <RICHV.94Jan10120323@hpingll.cup.hp.com> richv@hpingll.cup.hp.com (Rich Van Gaasbeck) writes:

> You shouldn't need to do this, I think.  The system detects which disk
> it was booted from and gets the root (a) and swap (b) partitions from
> there.  I think you'll find it says "changing root device to wd1a".

It doesn't get the swap, you'll have to recompile a kernel to do that.

> You will however either need a boot selection program (like os-bs) or
> a floppy to boot it.  It may work just to boot from the distribution
> floppy and type "wd(1,0)netbsd" when it asks for the program to boot

I use a floppy, but I used to have OS/2 boot manager which worked
fine.  BTW, its wd(1,a)/netbsd.

Cheers,
	Simon