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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!phoenix!gpw10 From: gpw10@phoenixcd.amdahl.com (Gary Ward) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD]: installing on a 2nd HD Message-ID: <4bw502My2ekn01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 9 Dec 92 18:27:43 GMT References: <1992Dec6.201114.9120@massey.ac.nz> <1ftqs7INNqrr@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec7.050015.19764@netcom.com> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation Lines: 48 In article <1992Dec7.050015.19764@netcom.com>, alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) writes: > In article <1ftqs7INNqrr@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> pauls@umich.edu > writes: > > writes > >| I had hoped this was goin to be easy but as per normal, nothing > ever > >| is. > >| > >| I had a 486 with an 85Mb disk with BSD386 installed and running > OK. > >| The machine got commandeered and DOS got dumped on it. I now have > it > >| back and have added a 2nd 62Mb drive. The 62 has DOS on it and is > C: > >| I had hoped to load 386BSD on the 85 but the kernel on the install > >| disk doesn't seem to see multiple drives. > > > >I think the consensus at this point is that 386bsd needs to reside on > the > >primary drive. > > > >You should also take a look at the two-drive kernel, a binary of > which is > >on most of the distribution sites in the ~386bsd-0.1/unofficial > directory. > > > > I haven't tried it, but I don't think 386BSD needs to be on the > primary > drive at all. It just needs a kernel and boot blocks that support > multiple drives. > -Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com> I'm afraid this is not true. Although Julian's new boot blocks can boot from another drive, you have to be running them first, which means that the DOS bootstrap in the parition table has to find them. This implies that they, at least, reside on the primary drive. It is possible to use a very small partition on the first disk to boot 386bsd which resides (mostly) on a second disk. -- +------------------------+---------------------------+ | Gary Ward | Amdahl Corporation | | gpw10@cd.amdahl.com | 1250 East Arques Avenue | | Phone : (408)746-8865 | P.O. Box 3470 M/S 142 | | | Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3470 | +------------------------+---------------------------+