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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!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.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: Booting from primary disk on secondary PCI IDE controller Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:39:50 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4f4mpm$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4c1avr$73@daneel.sds.no> <4c30sb$p1l@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4c5u6j$3k0_001@gifu.sds.no> <4ed2p2$1nc@news1.ucsd.edu> 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 sbaily@popmail.ucsd.edu (Scott Baily) writes: > > 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... Sorry, i have been missing this one. > 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. I forgot what your problem exactly is, and all the articles you're following up to are already expired. > Would I have to have the full source installed in order to modify > this, or is this source in the basic package? It's in the kernel source tree. -- 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. ;-)