Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 20:13:43 -0800 From: fod@netcom.com (Frank O'Donnell) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Recompiling the boot manager Message-ID: <199502080413.UAA27081@netcom16.netcom.com>
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Having recently installed FreeBSD 2.0 on the second of two IDE drives in a 486, I was interested in recompiling the boot manager so I wouldn't have to type in "wd(1,a)/kernel" every time I started the machine. After finding the /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.c file and changing the "part = unit = 0;" line to a "part = 0;" line and a "unit = 1;" line (I just wanted to point it to this drive rather than determining whether the BIOS returned reliable info or not), the next steps I took were educated guesses rather than based on solid information. Seeing a Makefile in this same directory, I executed "make", which resulted in a lot of extra files including a boot1 and a boot2. I then tried variations on a "disklabel -B wd0d" to install either or both of these files, which resulted in various errors. Was my procedure to compile the boot manager correct? And what exactly do I need to execute to install it on wd0? (And, do I need to install both boot1 and boot2, or just one of them?) Thanks for any help, Frank fod@netcom.com
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