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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to run FreeBSD from 2nd IDE drive
Date: 26 Mar 1996 19:25:48 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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sakke@netti.fi (Saku Elovaara) writes:
> Is it possible to run FreeBSD from 2nd IDE drive (slave) ?
> ... maybe using a boot disk or something like that ...

It is.  Type

	wd(1,a)/kernel

at the boot prompt.  Of course, you need an MBR on the primary disk
that allows you to boot the secondary disk, or you need to insert a
boot floppy, and type the above there.

-- 
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. ;-)