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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!usenet From: sbaily@popmail.ucsd.edu (Scott Baily) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting from primary disk on secondary PCI IDE controller Date: 27 Jan 1996 11:37:06 GMT Organization: UCSD Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4ed2p2$1nc@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <4c1avr$73@daneel.sds.no> <4c30sb$p1l@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4c5u6j$3k0_001@gifu.sds.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: turtle.extern.ucsd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 In article <4c5u6j$3k0_001@gifu.sds.no>, toreh@bootes.sds.no says... > >In article <4c30sb$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. >I do not have an up and runnning system, so it is a bit hard for me to look >into myself... I've got the same problem. How would i get to that code to modify it, concidering that the only way i managed to access the file system was by choosing the fixit option, even then, i couldn't even do an ls, just cd pwd and find. Would I have to have the full source installed in order to modify this, or is this source in the basic package? What if i just plugged the drive in as a slave on the primary controller? would i have to reinstall, or would it just start working immediately? (I'd still rather not have to do this, because my cables are too short.....Maybe i should just try installing linux, or would that have the same problem?