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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Qeustion to Omit hd(1,a)/kernel
Date: 20 May 1996 21:56:13 GMT
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macko@tusia.kiel.org (Maciej Wiatr) wrote:

> where do I find information about properly editting the boot.c file ?
> Maybe someone has made changes in this file and can give me some hints
> how I have to make it.

Editing boot.c?

There's a comment in the sys/boot/biosboot/Makefile now.  Anyway,
seems you might check the most recent version of boot.c.  hd(x,y) is
gone, and has been replaced by a more generic algorithm (courtesy
Bruce Evans) that allows for arbitrary mappings between BIOS drive
numbers and FreeBSD drivers/units.

-- 
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. ;-)