Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 15:37:43 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: tkelley@cy.com (Tim M. Kelley) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: custom boot from floppy Message-ID: <199601230507.PAA22082@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199601221527.KAA25297@cy.com> from "Tim M. Kelley" at Jan 22, 96 09:22:54 am
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Tim M. Kelley stands accused of saying:
>
> I want to set up a custom boot from a boot floppy. Specifically,
> I want the boot floppy to automatically search for the kernel as follows:
>
> wd(2,a)/kernel
>
> How can I accomplish this?
It's quite possible that you can't, depending on whether your BIOS
supports drives beyond 0x81. If you want to try, make the following mods to
to /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.c :
/***************************************************************\
* Boot from wd(2,a) instead. *
\***************************************************************/
part = 0;
unit = 2;
drive = 0x82;
maj = 0;
loadstart:
> Tim Kelley
>
>
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