Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:28:24 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811251026430.24871-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199811250640.OAA01720@hsw.generalresources.com>
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On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Christopher Hall wrote: > > In message <199811240210.SAA01652@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > >... > >> What should rootdev be set to when booting da0s1a with one IDE drive? > > > >Ignore $rootdev and instead set $num_ide_disks to 1. > > > > That works, thanks. > > Another question: Is there any way to boot DOS from /boot/loader? > Perhaps using some Forth code? Let me add yet another question to this: is there any way to boot FreeBSD from DOS partition, using /boot/loader? (I suspect it's not possible in both cases, though...) Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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