From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 21 02:22:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA15992 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 02:22:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk (mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk [130.246.170.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA15979 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 02:22:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmb@rcru.rl.ac.uk) Received: from rcru.rl.ac.uk (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA64271; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:21:12 GMT (envelope-from tmb@rcru.rl.ac.uk) Message-Id: <199901211021.KAA64271@mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk> To: Sheldon Hearn cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Peter Jeremy , current@FreeBSD.ORG, tmb@mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk Subject: Re: Experiences with aout-to-elf and new bootblocks In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:53:48 +0200." <74039.916912428@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:21:12 +0000 From: Mark Blackman Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FWIW, I've done it under 2.2.7 by 1) installing booteasy on both wd0 *AND* wd2 2) altering the boot.config to 1:wd(2,a)kernel 3) compiling above kernel with config kernel root on wd2 Mark In message <74039.916912428@axl.noc.iafrica.com>, Sheldon Hearn writes: > > >On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:21:45 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > >> Well, kind of. You "hard code" the name wd2 in your kernel >> configuration file. Loader assigns numbers sequentially. > >FWIW, I've never seen FreeBSD boot off a drive on the secondary IDE >controller using a boot manager on the primary. I haven't tried with >CURRENT. > >Ciao, >Sheldon. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message