From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 23 12:48:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA10962 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 12:48:21 -0800 Received: from dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (dvals1.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.4.96]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA10952 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 12:48:18 -0800 Received: by dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.9/server2.4) id PAA28676; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 15:48:04 -0500 Message-Id: <199501232048.PAA28676@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> From: Branson Matheson Subject: Re: writing bootcode; need a method To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 15:48:03 -0500 (EST) Cc: mmead@goof.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9501231851.AA08997@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 23, 95 11:51:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1200 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > Does anyone know how to write the FreeBSD bootcode despite the fact that > > disklabel doesn't like the way sysinstall sets up the drives? My setup is > > this: I have an IDE drive (for a couple doom games and such), so I still want > > FreeBSD to boot off sd0. I need to put the bootmanager on the wd0 drive, and > > then to run FreeBSD, point it to disk 2. Then I've got to manually type in > > hd(1,a)/kernel each time it boots. I know how to modify the bootcode and > > rebuild it, but disklabel won't write the bootcode, cause it doesn't like how > > sysinstall set things up... Any ideas? In anycase... why cannot the boot manager take care of this... it _was_ designed for it.... put the boot manager on your ide drive... and tell it to boot from hd(0,a)kernel. I have this setup at home and use it frequently for just this reason. -branson -- _______________________________________________________________________________ E. Branson Matheson III e.b.matheson@larc.nasa.gov Computer Sciences Corporation "If Pete and Re-Pete were sitting on (804)864-9700 -- Work a fence, And Pete fell off.... (804)881-8308 -- Beeper Who'd be left?"