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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:9034 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2131 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5689 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!frmug.fr.net!renux.frmug.fr.net!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: Tell me it is not so. (Booting problems AHA-1542C) Date: 25 Feb 1994 21:30:44 +0100 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2kln62$16c@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <1994Feb16.133543.6901@news.brandonu.ca> <MYCROFT.94Feb17145104@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <2kimoh$pg9@quba.quantum.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <2kimoh$pg9@quba.quantum.de>, Jan-Hinrich Fessel <fessel@quantum.de> wrote: >On the other hand, it was not possible for me to boot NetBSD >with the 1542C BIOS enabled _and_ any WD type disk enabled >by the machine's setup program. It is expected since the process used by the BIOS for booting is the following : 1. if there is a drive configurated into the setup, it will be used to boot from, 2. if there isn't then the BIOS will give up and let another BIOS boot, typically a SCSI disk. If you install Julian's bootblock on a IDE/MFM/ESDI disk while having a SCSI interface, you will be able to boot *BSD from the SCSI disk by specifying hd(0,0,0)/386bsd at the primary boot prompt. -- Ollivier ROBERT Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net A FreeBSD & PERL addict... PGP 2.3a public key on key-servers Running FreeBSD-current and very happy to do so !