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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Bypassing boot options screen in FreeBSD Date: 23 Jul 1994 01:24:39 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 27 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Jul22212439@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <30eoi0$45k@venus.mcs.com> <30fi2l$978@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <30gmv9$fs1@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <30jqtm$133@keltia.frmug.fr.net> <vanepp.774804569@sfu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca's message of 21 Jul 94 15:29:29 GMT In article <vanepp.774804569@sfu.ca> vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) writes: Better yet: > * floppy or hard drive * > \***************************************************************/ unit = drive & 0x7f; /* select the drive we booted from */ part = 0; > maj = (drive&0x80 ? 0 : 2); /* a good first bet */ I put this change in the NetBSD/i386 boot block on September 7, 1993. It works in almost all cases, except where a machine has both SCSI and IDE/ESDI/ST506, and you want to boot off something other than drive C:. The NetBSD boot block also contains various bug fixes and simplifications, and works with 16k/2k file systems (which some people prefer). -- - Charles Hannum NetBSD group Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sun4c, mac68k, pc532, da30. In progress: sun3, pmax, vax, sun4m.