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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Booting frm sd0 as default?
Message-ID: <Cv369J.KK3@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Keywords: booting FreeBSD
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <miff.777745860@apanix.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 10:24:55 GMT
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In article <miff.777745860@apanix.apana.org.au> miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) writes:
>I can type hd(1,a)/386bsd and boot from the second disk just dandy,

Which reminds me: why do you have to use hd(1,a) instead of sd(0,a)?

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University                 R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk

Ooooh!  I didn't know we had a king.  I thought we were an
autonomous collective.