From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 23 13:58:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA16879 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 13:58:08 -0800 Received: from goof.com (root@goof.com [198.82.204.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA16869 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 13:58:03 -0800 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA04848; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 16:57:51 -0500 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199501232157.QAA04848@goof.com> Subject: Re: writing bootcode; need a method To: branson@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (Branson Matheson) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 16:57:50 -0500 (EST) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501232048.PAA28676@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> from "Branson Matheson" at Jan 23, 95 03:48:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 775 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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