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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: Will this work (two IDE drives, DOS and *BSD)? Message-ID: <1993Aug27.001103.29717@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <BRAD.93Aug26091051@stemwinder.FCR.COM> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 00:11:03 GMT Lines: 51 Brad Parker (brad@FCR.COM) wrote: : : Well, while I thought the discourse was interesting, I have to say I'm : confused. : : I just installed NetBSD-0.9 on my second IDE drive with only one small change : to a shell script (the "install" script). : : 1. I installed booteasy 1.2 on my first IDE driver (which also : contains DOS). It will happily boot from the 2nd IDE drive (and : remember it for the next time). : : 2. I used my second 386bsd system (doesn't everyone have 2? ;-) to : modify the "install1" disk for NetBSD-0.9 . I change the "install" : script to use "wd1" instead of "wd0". This was a change to only one : line. (NOTE: it would have be very nice if the script had already : allowed for this; next rev?) : : 3. from then on the install worked fine and was "nominal". just : remember to type "wd1" when you install the kernel. : : 4. when I boot from the second IDE drive, the boot tracks ask me : (yea!) what drive/file to boot from. I enter "wd(1,a)/netbsd". : : Works like a champ. (but, it would be nice if one could configure a : default boot disk/file) : Try modifying the file boot.c (on my system /sys/i386/boot/boot.c) by changing the line part=unit=0; to part=0; unit=1; Then do a make; make install and a disklabel -r wd1 >foo and then do disklabel -r -R wd1 foo /usr/mdec/wdboot /usr/mdec/bootwd This will hopefully change the default boot to wd1. I did try this on my system and the boot messages were correct but since I do not have a wd1 it went into an error loop. I was able to type in wd(0,a)/ 386bsd and boot off my regular drive and replace the modified bootblocks with the original ones though. : My only question is where will the default kernel swap to? I'm afraid : to ask (and fear for my ms-dos data). I'm still downloading sources : so I can't check myself (yet)... : : -brad : -- : Politically correct term for `corrupt': Ethically different, morally challenged : : Brad Parker FCR Software, Inc., Boston, Ma. brad@fcr.com :