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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to change defaults of the boot floppy? Date: 19 Dec 1995 22:59:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4b7g4k$6bu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4a92vu$2lq2@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) writes: > I still use the boot floppy to boot a kernel from my > second SCSI hard disk. So I have to enter 'hd(1,a)/kernel' > at the boot prompt each time I boot, which is somewhat annoying. > I'd like to change the default of fd(0,a)/kernel to the above. > is this possible, maybe by frobbing some bytes on the boot floppy? > Just tell me an offset and what to write there. I can't tell you an offset... but you've got the source! cd /sys/i386/boot/biosboot vi boot.c # tweak the defaults make disklabel -B -b obj/boot1 -s obj/boot2 fd0 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)