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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!van-bc!not-for-mail From: jhenders@wimsey.com (John Henders) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: First Attempt to Install FreeBSD - Discouraging Date: 20 Jun 1996 21:32:10 -0700 Organization: Wimsey Information Services Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4qd8ka$72j@vanbc.wimsey.com> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4n7mp1$217@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <4n8jin$htl@agate.berkeley.edu> <319BD8E3.10D67C49@lambert.org> <4ngunq$oeu@agate.berkeley.edu> <4qag4e$789@nntp.igs.net> <31C9C8D1.7DDA8588@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: vanbc.wimsey.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) In <31C9C8D1.7DDA8588@lambert.org> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >Chris K. Skinner wrote: >] My question was going to be, "Is it possible to setup the FreeBSD >] boot loader to go to start any arbitrary IDE boot disk partition?" >Any arbitrary boot disk *PRIMARY* partition, yes. [snip] >You will only be able to boot from disk 1 (BIOS drive ID 0x80). >You can, if your BIOS fills out your DX register correctly, use >OS-BS or other boot selector to load the boot selector from the >second drive. Of course, you could just hack the boot loader to be able to pull the kernel off the boot drive, even if it's a dos drive, and then have the kernel mount the disk you're really using. The only problem with this is you have to have installed the system so you can compile a kernel that knows where to look for the boot drive, or at least you did the last time I installed 2.0. Has anyone ever tried to modify lilo to work with FreeBSD?