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From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley)
Subject: Re: Booting from SCSI disk...
To: joe@ns.via.net (Joe McGuckin)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:15:13 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199507181845.LAA15629@ns.via.net> from "Joe McGuckin" at Jul 18, 95 11:45:54 am
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My second drive is ide, not scsi, but I don't see why this would
not work.  I am using the (new?) booteasy that comes with 2.0.5.
It will default to the last drive/partition I booted from.  I have
Linux on wd1 with lilo installed on the MBR of wd1.  It is the only
os on wd1.  If I tell booteasy to boot from wd1, the next boot
defaults to wd1 and it will boot unatended.  I cannot imagine why
it would not also boot FreeBSD from the second drive instead of Linux.

Joe McGuckin wrote:

> My SCSI disk (contains freeBSD 2.0) is the 2'nd drive on the system.
> I have an IDA disk for dos also.
> 
> Normally, I have to type 
> 
>   hd(1,a)/kernel
> at the boot program prompt to make it boot.
> 
> I HAVE to make this automatic by this afternoon. The machine is to 
> be installed in a remote location.
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