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From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
Subject: Re: Booting 386BSD from second IDE drive?
Message-ID: <1992Sep1.172925.26037@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
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Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
References: <1992Sep1.154658.18258@motor.physiolmotor.physiol>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:29:25 GMT
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In article <1992Sep1.154658.18258@motor.physiolmotor.physiol> smg@physiology.oxford.ac.uk (Steve Gough) writes:
>I have installed 386BSD on a whole drive (which was surprisingly easy,
>thanks to the install program).  At the moment to switch between 
>booting DOS or BSD, I swap drive cables, change the CMOS drive parameters
>and reboot---there has to be an easier way!

Yes, we're in the same situation -- we have a 40 MB DOS and a 120 MB 386BSD
drive (both IDE).  We have one of the boot partition selector program, but 
none of the kernels we have tried so far has worked off the second disk.

We can't recompile the system at this point, so we're grateful for any
pointers to kernels or other tools to help alleviate the situation.

Thanks -- Volker

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