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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at!not-for-mail From: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: booting 386bsd from 2nd hard disk Date: 18 May 1993 10:06:41 +0200 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria Lines: 43 Message-ID: <1ta5ehINN839@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> References: <1t8kn3INNkav@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7] In article <1t8kn3INNkav@uwm.edu> Jeff Bartig (jeffb@csd4.csd.uwm.edu) wrote: -> I have been running 386bsd in a very small partition on my IDE -> hard disk. I just purchased a 1542C and a SCSI hard disk. I -> would like to install 386bsd on my new, fast hard disk and leave -> the old IDE drive for DOS. -> -> Is it possible to install 386bsd completely on the second drive -> (the SCSI one)? I've seen some messages that talk about removing -> the IDE drive while installing. Once everything is installed and -> the IDE drive is back in place, how do I boot 386bsd from the -> second drive? -> -> OS-BS (old version) doesn't recognize the 2nd drive. I also have -> OS/2's Boot Manager which allows me to boot OS/2 from the 2nd drive, -> but I could never get it to work with 386bsd when it was on my IDE -> drive. Will it work when I have 386bsd on the SCSI drive? I have done this with two IDE drives. IDE+SCSI should be a bit simpler. There's a boot selector called booteasy that can load from the second drive (you can get it from ftp.tu-graz.ac.at:pub/386BSD/0.1/unofficial/booteasy). What I have done to boot 386bsd from the second (IDE) drive: - installed booteasy on the first drive - (you can install booteasy on the second drive, too, if you have multiple partitions there) - modified julian's bootblocks to use the second drive per default - rebuilt the kernel to have root and swap on wd1 (probably not necessary for you, since your second disk is sd0, which is already in the config file). -> -> Am I just looking for trouble by wanting 386bsd all on the 2nd -> drive? Should I just create a root partition on the IDE and -> put the rest on the SCSI? It worked perfectly for me. -> -> I've looked through the FAQ list, but I didn't see any answers -> explaining how to boot from a 2nd drive. -> -> Jeff -> Christoph