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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!cupnews0.cup.hp.com!richv From: richv@hpingll.cup.hp.com (Rich Van Gaasbeck) Subject: Possible to run from second IDE drive only? Sender: news@cupnews0.cup.hp.com (News Admin) Message-ID: <RICHV.94Jan10120323@hpingll.cup.hp.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 20:03:23 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: hpingll.cup.hp.com Organization: Hewlett-Packard Lines: 25 I'd like to run NetBSD from my second IDE drive only. The first drive is filled with a single msdos partition and since I don't have a tape drive to back it up easily, I would rather not have BSD scribble on it. Will changing the config line to: config netbsd root on wd1 swap on wd1 do the job or is there something hard coded somewhere that "knows" that it should use wd0? I seem to recall that it has the partition letters for swap and root hardcoded. Ok, I forgot /etc/checklist or /etc/fstab to mount the filesystems from wd1. Anywhere else? How come no-one specifies a dump device in any of the sample config files? How about booting. Presumably I should be able to make a boot floppy (anyone know how to do this, other than cloning one of the install floppies) with my wd1 kernel. I would boot from the floppy, the boot code on the floppy would read my kernel off the floppy (w/o mounting it, right?) and when the kernel starts running it should mount wd1 partition A as root just as if the kernel had been booted off wd1, correct? I notice that none of the sample config files use wd1 as root. Has ANYONE ever tried this? Richv