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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Puuting Boot Loader on wd0 for hd0 Date: 8 Jul 1996 22:30:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4rs25q$1eu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31DE3A62.31DF@x509.com> 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 Pat <patr@x509.com> wrote: > I want to put a boot loader on wd0 (EIDE) to tell the machine > to boot to hd(1,a) (scsi drive). > > Can the 'standard' bootloader do this. The problem is that your BIOS won't boot anything else than drive 0x80. (If that's *not* your problem, then the answer is: yep, the bootstrap can be patched to boot off something else than the first drive. Have a look into the sou^H^H^Hdocumentation files under /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/.) -- 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. ;-)