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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Booting frm sd0 as default?
Message-ID: <CvI71M.G8t@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <miff.778295136@apanix.apana.org.au> <MICHAELV.94Aug31133216@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <CvGDB5.CD4@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 13:05:46 GMT
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In article <CvGDB5.CD4@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> I wrote:
>OS-BS happily offers me the choice of all three disks, but there's
>nothing I can type to the BSD boot program to get it to boot from the
>SCSI disk. I'll try changing the BSD boot and see what happens.
I edited sys.c to remove the check that unit not > 1, and it now
happily boots from the SCSI disk as hd(2,a).
It would be nice if the boot program either
(a) determined for itself the DOS disk number for any disk specified
in the usual way, or
(b) extended the syntax to allow the user to specify the DOS disk
number (eg sd(0,a)@82/386bsd or something).
It would be even better if it made the default be the disk that the
boot program was loaded from (I think OS-BS passes the disk number
in AL).
-- Richard
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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.