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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Hard Code boot of secondary disk
Date: 24 Jul 1995 12:20:49 +0200
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Michael Vernick <vernick@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>I want to hard code my system to look for the kernel on a secondary
>disk (hd(1,a)/kernel), i.e. not the disk where the Master Boot Record
>exists. It mentions something in the install doc, but there are no details.
I think there's a hook in the boot code that can be conditionally
comiled in:
cd /sys/i386/boot/biosboot
<examine the files and look which -D option you need>
vi Makefile # <add the -DSOMETHING option>
make
make install
disklabel -B [sw]d0 # whatever is appropriate
reboot
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)