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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:08:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: booting from SCSI-2
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225120752.27909D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199802240057.QAA13458@athena.tera.com>

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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:

> > > 	Is there a way of hacking the kernel so that I can boot from
> > > 	my 2nd SCSI drive?
> > 
> > No kernel changes necessary.
> 
> 
> 		Well, then if I put that 0:sd(1,a) in /boot.config
> 		FBSD should work, correct?  ---By the way, I've
> 		got v2.1.5 installed.  I'll upgrade via the net 
> 		once my PLIP link works.

Oh, yeah, you will need the newer bootblocks; 2.1.5 didn't support the
/boot.* files yet.

> > Make sure you boot from the first; the BIOS may not be able to see the
> > third drive.
> > 
> 
> 		Yes!!  It took me hours to figure this out.
> 		I've got my Deb root on unit 0, SWAP and so
> 		forth on 2.

Sounds good.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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