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I have a system with an IDE HD (BIOS disk #0) and an SCSI one (BIOS disk
#1). I want the OS (FreeBSD 2.2.2) to boot from the SCSI and use the IDE
for simple storage, so I put the booteasy thing on both disks and
arranged to start from the SCSI part, but for some reason it looks for
sd(1,a) instead of sd(0,a), so it panics, etc. If I manually type
"1:sd(0,a)kernel" at boot, it does start correctly.

So I edited /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.c, and put there the
same values of biosdrive, dosdev, maj, etc. that I see when booting to
sd(0,a) as mentioned above, and recompiled and installed the kernel.
However, I must be doing something wrong as nothing changes.

Any advice would be appreciated.


C. Amengual
Healthnet SL
Spain