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From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting from primary disk on secondary PCI IDE controller
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 95 12:03:31 GMT
Organization: Statens Datasentral a.s
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In article <4c30sb$p1l@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
   j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
>
>Modify the code for the bootblocks in sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.c,
>remake the bootblocks, and the disklabel -B -b boot1 -s boot2 fd0
>in order to install the new blocks on your floppy.
>
What about the -a option to the kernel, can it be made to work?

I do not have an up and runnning system, so it is a bit hard for me to look 
into myself...

-- tore

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Tore Haraldsen, Statens Datasentral A/S
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