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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.uni.net.za!ru.uni.net.za!wits.uni.net.za!howland.erols.net!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!usenet From: jardine@jardine.math.uwo.ca (Rick Jardine) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: booting from sd0 aka. hd1 Date: 8 May 1997 16:43:30 GMT Organization: The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5ksvri$656@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: jardine.math.uwo.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5911 I've just recently added an IDE drive to what was a SCSI netbsd-1.2 system (pci bus, AMIBIOS, buslogic bt-946tc controller). The IDE drive has a DOS partition on it, and I've installed the bteasy-1.7 bootblocks on it so that I can also boot from sd0. When I try booting from sd0 from within the booteasy menu, the netbsd boot starts, but then quits and reboots at the time that it should be broadcasting the messages about the pci bus. On the other hand, netbsd boots like it should when I use the command hd(1,a)/netbsd at the boot prompt. I've tried changing the bootblock code to get the system to automatically boot from hd1 according to the suggestion in the FAQ, but it doesn't help. I think I'm missing something fundamental. Is there actually a way to get netbsd to automatically boot from hd(1,a)/netbsd? As it stands, if the machine goes down when I'm not around, it will be stuck in a continuous reboot cycle until I can get back into my office. Should I be thinking instead of installing netbsd on a partition of the IDE drive? Thanks in advance. With best regards Rick Jardine