Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:53:18 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Subject: How to auto-boot from an alternate disk Message-ID: <200105161553.f4GFrIb28960@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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Hi,
I have a machine with 3 IDE disks and 2 SCSI disks and I want to boot
from the first SCSI disk.... *but* my BIOS won't boot it.
How are you supposed to do this ?
I've currently done
# boot0cfg -v -t 10 -B -s 5 ad0
# boot0cfg -v -t 1 -B -s 5 -m 0 ad1
# boot0cfg -v -t 1 -B -s 5 -m 0 ad2
Which causes things to merrily skip across my IDE disks 'till it
finds the first SCSI disk, loads /boot/loader from there, finds my
kernel and then drops into a dumb ``manual mount'' prompt that makes
me say ``ufs:/dev/da0s1a''.
What I'd *REALLY* like is some way to just say ``default to
3:da(0,a)/boot/loader''.
Any suggestions ?
Ta.
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
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