From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 18:28:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA11388 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:28:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA11365 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:27:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (localhost.rwwa.com [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA00299 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:27:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199701300227.VAA00299@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: biosboot config? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:27:49 -0500 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Attempting to actually solve the ``I wanna automatically boot off my dang scsi drive even though I have two IDE drives in my stupid system'', I think I have a glimmer... I am able to boot my system with ``3:sd(0,a)/kernel'', which seems strange since I have only three drives and the 3: would seem to refer to the fourth drive, no? Any idea why this is? Is this because a ATAPI cdrom gets inserted in the table? Another mystery is this: Booteasy comes up on the first IDE drive (where I installed it), but F5 goes directly to the first SCSI drive. Why is that? Anyway, how's this: 1) I need to CD to /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/ 2) I need to rebuild with BOOT_HD_BIAS=3 3) I need to install it onto the disk. HOWZATDONE? Any chance of this working? Will this automatically make ``3:sd(0,a)/kernel'' the default boot? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 592 8935, Net: witr@rwwa.COM