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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4nqppt$6gn@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <cwq7ND1w165w@tusia.kiel.org> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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 Anyway, seems you might check the most recent version of boot.c. hd(x,y) is gone, and has been replaced by a more generic algorithm (courtesy Bruce Evans) that allows for arbitrary mappings between BIOS drive numbers and FreeBSD drivers/units.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. ;-)