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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!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!uni-erlangen.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: Possible to boot from floppy then switch to SCSI HD Date: 2 Mar 1996 20:07:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4ha9qp$af@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4h0cma$78e@sam.inforamp.net> 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 paulg@inforamp.net (Paul Griffth) writes: > As the subject line suggest, how does one go about booting from a > floppy then have continue to boot from a SCSI HD ?? You only want a floppy with the bootstrap, or with the entire kernel? The former is simple. Type ``sd(0,a)/kernel'' (or ``wd(0,a)/kernel'') at the boot prompt. You can remove the floppy after this. The latter is more complicated. You can force the kernel to use the compiled-in root device (the one appearing at the ``kernel root on'' line in the config file) instead of the device where it has been booted from by entering the boot option ``-r''. -- 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. ;-)