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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Booting frm sd0 as default? Message-ID: <CvAuq8.It@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Keywords: booting FreeBSD Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <miff.777745860@apanix.apana.org.au> <Cv369J.KK3@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <miff.777951515@apanix.apana.org.au> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 13:56:31 GMT Lines: 20 In article <miff.777951515@apanix.apana.org.au> miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) writes: >But if you have one of each, the boot code doesn't go looking at every >disk first, so it can't tell this. The "hd" is a special case that >assumes this : hd(0... goes to 0x81 and uses 0,0 while hd(1... goes to 0x81 >and uses 4,0. > >Makes sense, no? 8) Not very extensible, though. So if I have two IDE disks and a SCSI disk, and I want to boot from the SCSI, I should hack something into the boot program to use 0x82 and 4/0? (DOS does seem to see the SCSI disk as 0x82.) -- 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.