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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 1996 09:35:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installation fails
Message-ID:  <199607200735.JAA03486@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9607200414.AA09748=aeb@zeus-184.cwi.nl> from "Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl" at "Jul 20, 96 06:14:16 am"

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As Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

>  I have a rather
> delicate setup with 3 IDE and 3 SCSI disks, and as far as I can
> see there is no information at all about the precise properties
> or configuration of this boot manager, so I answered No.

> So my present question is: is there a way to let the installation
> procedure make a boot floppy that boots a given partition?

Not automatically, but you can manually boot.  Assuming your FreeBSD
root file system is on the second SCSI disk (sd1), insert the
installation floppy, then say at the Boot: prompt:

	4:sd(1,a)/kernel

(The `4' means `5th BIOS disk'.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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