From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 4 18:26:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA27206 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 May 1997 18:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA27201 for ; Sun, 4 May 1997 18:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA24782; Mon, 5 May 1997 10:56:11 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705050126.KAA24782@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Installing FBSD on a second harddisk. In-Reply-To: <19970504094140.07712@pavilion.net> from Josef Karthauser at "May 4, 97 09:41:40 am" To: joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser) Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 10:56:10 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, john@o-farrell.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Josef Karthauser stands accused of saying: > > What would be really cool is if I could could have a scsi disk with > freebsd on, which I could change the id on and still have freebsd find > it's root partition. What would it take to make this happen. (Point > me in the direction of the right place in the kernel source and I'll > take a look my self if everyone else is too busy.) You could try reading the prompt emitted by the bootstrap, which reads : Use 1:sd(0,a)kernel to boot sd0 if it is BIOS drive 1 > Joe -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[