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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: MBR/Win95/IDE (3 questions)
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 17:04:10 -0700 (MST)
Cc: terry@lambert.org, tony@thing.sunquest.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199510040821.RAA15913@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 4, 95 05:51:24 pm
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> > If you have an IDE disk and a SCSI disk, to boot FreeBSD from the SCSI
> > disk if the IDE is the first in the INT 13 chain, you will have to hack
> > both the boot loader and the files locore.s and autoconf.c (to set the
> > ddevice numbers, since the DX register only supports 0x80 and 0x81 drive
> > ID's) in /sys/i386/i386, then rebuild a kernel.
> 
> Actually, it's a only the bootstrap loader that needs to be modified; last 
> time I did it it was a one-line fix in boot.c .

I think that's only true if the SCSI is drive 2.  Drive 3 and above
requires kernel hacks for root mounting to work.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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