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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!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!pipex!uknet!glasgow!simonm From: simonm@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Marlow) Subject: Re: Possible to run from second IDE drive only? Message-ID: <CJGxx0.KG4@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept. References: <RICHV.94Jan10120323@hpingll.cup.hp.com> <CJGr7n.CKD@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 14:07:47 GMT Lines: 19 richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: > In article <RICHV.94Jan10120323@hpingll.cup.hp.com> richv@hpingll.cup.hp.com (Rich Van Gaasbeck) writes: > You shouldn't need to do this, I think. The system detects which disk > it was booted from and gets the root (a) and swap (b) partitions from > there. I think you'll find it says "changing root device to wd1a". It doesn't get the swap, you'll have to recompile a kernel to do that. > You will however either need a boot selection program (like os-bs) or > a floppy to boot it. It may work just to boot from the distribution > floppy and type "wd(1,0)netbsd" when it asks for the program to boot I use a floppy, but I used to have OS/2 boot manager which worked fine. BTW, its wd(1,a)/netbsd. Cheers, Simon