Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 16:57:50 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> To: branson@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (Branson Matheson) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: writing bootcode; need a method Message-ID: <199501232157.QAA04848@goof.com> In-Reply-To: <199501232048.PAA28676@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> from "Branson Matheson" at Jan 23, 95 03:48:03 pm
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Branson Matheson wrote: > > > 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. Because I want to boot hd(1,a)/kernel, NOT hd(0,a)/kernel ... hd(0,a)/kernel would be a my ide drive, which has no incarnation of FreeBSD on it whatsoever. hd(1,a)/kernel is my sd0 drive, which has 2.0 on it. -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -- System/Network Administration, User Support, Software Devel. Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research Work Related: mmead@ctr.vt.edu | All Other: mmead@goof.com WWW: http://www.goof.com:/~mmead
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