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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Omit hd(1,a)/kernel ?
Date: 7 May 1996 21:06:23 GMT
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macko@tusia.kiel.org (Maciej Wiatr) wrote:

> Hai,
  ^^^
He!, i've copyrighted this one, dont'ya know? :)

> one more question about booting from a secon drive :
> 
> I have to write down the sentence mentioned in the subject on
> every boot. Is there any other possibility to boot from a second
> SCSI drive ? I think about a special configuration.

There's an option in /sys/i386/biosboot/boot.c that can be tweaked
in order to default to hd(1,a).  UTSL...

-- 
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. ;-)