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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: james@sol1.east-london.ac.uk (James Andrews, User Support) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: setting up booting manually to boot from 10meg partition Date: 7 Apr 1993 04:14:51 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 24 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <1267.9304070916@uk.ac.uel.sol1> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu I have two disk controllers and two disks in my ami bois 486sx pc. The one that is set up for booting at the moment is the 100meg ide disk. This has a ten meg spare extended dos partition on it which I intend to make the bootable 386bsd partition. The remainder of 386bsd could go on the 300meg scsi with adaptec 1542b which will mount on boot. I'd also like to use a little of the 300meg disk for dos stuff, so that will have to be partitioned. I think this is the most sensible arrangement (apart from having to use the fastest bits of the scsi disk just for a little dos storage) as if I booted from the adaptec controller it wouldnt be able to access the ide disk. To make this work I will certainly need a new kernel with multiple drive support. I am stuck at an earlier stage though as the install floppy wont install into the 10meg partition. What do I need to do manually to make the 10meg partition a 386bsd bootable? Is it possible to force the install program to help with any of this work? thanks for reading james@sol1.uel.ac.uk