From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 16:26:00 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA20788 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:26:00 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA20782 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:25:58 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA07072; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:10:30 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507182340.JAA07072@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Booting from SCSI disk... To: joe@ns.via.net (Joe McGuckin) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:10:30 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507181845.LAA15629@ns.via.net> from "Joe McGuckin" at Jul 18, 95 11:45:54 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 978 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Joe McGuckin stands accused of saying: > 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. Then you won't need the DOS drive, so rip it out 8) > Is there a patch for this? Not "patch" per se; you can edit the bootcode in /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot to change the default, remake and then rewrite the disklabel. > joe@via.net -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[