From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 1 17:08:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA19148 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:08:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA19044 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:06:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA02611; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:37:19 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601020107.LAA02611@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: boot from sd1? To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:37:18 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512300245.TAA06357@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Dec 29, 95 07:45:04 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Don Yuniskis stands accused of saying: > > Greetings! > For 2.1.0R, given: > wd0 -- MS-DOG > wd1 -- FBSD 2.1.0R > sd0 -- *more* MS-DOG stuff > sd1 -- FBSD 2.1.0R (a *different* filesystem hierarchy) > How do I manage to boot from sd1? It seems that wd1 intercepts > whatever incantation I use (sd1, hd1, etc.) You can't, unless you have a BIOS that supports booting from a disk other than the first or second. If you do, try hd3. > don -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[