Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:03:50 +0200 From: Willem van Engen <wvengen@stack.nl> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to auto-boot from an alternate disk Message-ID: <3B03BE26.2729D481@stack.nl>
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Brian Somers wrote: > > 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 ? I'm not completely sure, but when you would create a file boot.loader on da0s1a containing: 3:da(0,a)/boot/loader the bootloader should be loaded from da3s1a. (for more info see man 8 boot) - Willem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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