Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:35:47 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: David Niergarth <jdnier@tds.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First boot question Message-ID: <436736F3.9050902@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4365B8C5.2010304@tds.net> References: <4365B8C5.2010304@tds.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi David,
> Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from an external drive (Firewire)? How
> about a second internal drive (IDE)?
Yes and yes ! :)
> The iso_install.txt file uses the following example:
>
> 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:11
>
> "hd" appears to be a device alias for disk0. My question is how to
> specify disk1 or a Firewire drive?
At the openfirmware prompt, issue a 'devalias' command and you'll see
what some of the device-name shortcuts are. I'd say the second IDE drive
would be 'hd1'.
For a firewire drive, the alis is most likely
fw/node/sbp-2/disk@0:X
.. where X is the partition number.
e.g. to boot from partition 3 on the external firewire drive:
0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader fw/node/sbp-2/disk@0:3
later,
Peter.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?436736F3.9050902>