From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 01:24:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA14052 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 01:24:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA14044 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 01:24:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA28816; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:28:25 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:28:24 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Christopher Hall cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-Reply-To: <199811250640.OAA01720@hsw.generalresources.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||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