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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!ns.saard.net!news.camtech.com.au!news.adelaide.on.net!news.ade.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!news.sgi.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Curt Welch <curt@kcwc.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: booting default from secondary IDE-disk? Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:39:31 -0500 Organization: KCW Consulting Lines: 27 Message-ID: <32764F63.2781E494@kcwc.com> References: <3273357E.167EB0E7@inferno.phys.tue.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: h2.kcwc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Gert van der Plas wrote: > > Hello Good Folks, > > Is there a way to boot FreeBSD from a secondary disk (primairy > controller)? I mean without each time entering '1:wd(1,a)/kernel'? > I would like to make this the default. It would be even better if I > could call this from SM-DOS. (My Aztec soundcard needs some weird > initialisations to give sound). I had the same problem (Windows 95 on drive 0, FreeBSD on drive 1) and ended up creating a custom boot floppy which defaulted to wd(1,a). The machine boots Windows 95 by default without the floppy and boots FreeBSD if I put the floppy in. I forget what I had to do to make this floppy, but as I recal, it envolved changing C code to make a custom version of the boot program which had different defaults. If you are interested, I can probably supply a copy of the disk, or do a little research to figure out what I had to do to make it. -- Curt Welch http://www.wp.com/CurtWelch