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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!msuinfo!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!yallara!lm From: lm@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Luke Mewburn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: default boot off hd(1,a)386bsd? Date: 30 Jan 1994 13:02:16 GMT Organization: Technical Services Group, Dept. of Computer Science, RMIT Lines: 49 Message-ID: <2igb4o$su5@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> References: <clary.759753970@s1.elec.uq.oz.au> Reply-To: lm@rmit.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au NNTP-Posting-User: lm Keywords: bteasy clary@s1.elec.uq.oz.au (Clary Harridge) writes: > I have a problem using bteasy14 with 386bsd sdboot/bootsd $Revision 1.8 > > My configuration is > Drive 0 DOS on ESDI drive > Drive 1 UNIX on SCSI drive, No DOS partition. > > [...] > > My queries are > > 1) should I install bteasy on both drives? I had to do this > after the original FreeBSD "install". No. Just install booteasy on drive 0. Then when you boot you get a menu like: F1 - dos F5 - second drive. Hitting F5 then gives you the *bsd boot loader (which are stored in the bootblocks on drive 1.) If you install booteasy (BE) on drive 1 as well you get no bsd bootblocks on drive 1 as BE overwrites it. (I installed BE on both at one stage and came up against this wall and then realised what I'd done ;) > 2) Is there something else required after the disklabel? see below > 3) Is there an easier way to achive a default boot off hd(1,a)386bsd? Yeah, hack boot.c and change the assignment `unit=0' to unit=1 (for the `(1,a)' bit). Then you'll have to hack the maj= for the appropriate entry for `hd'. (I don't know this. I had 2 IDE drives so I only had to do the unit=1 bit for netbsd0.9. Netbsd-current has unit=drive&0x7f which means that it's smart at sets x in (x,a) to the drive the bootblocks loaded from). compile the bootblocks, relabel yer drive, and reboot. > Please email if you can help. > Thanks! > -- > regards Dept. of Electrical Engineering, > Clary Harridge University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4072 > Phone: +61-7-365-3636 Fax: +61-7-365-4999 > INTERNET: clary@s1.elec.uq.oz.au