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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!zib-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!nuggets From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: I'm tired of typing hd(1,a)/386bsd everytime I boot! [FreeBSD] Date: 27 Apr 1994 11:14:29 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 31 Message-ID: <2plhel$sh5@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <mldCowtM2.1Br@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: krone.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Matthew Deter (mld@netcom.com) wrote: : I have FreeBSD 1.0.2 on my 486 box, with C: (in the BIOS config) as an : IDE and D: is where the 1542 patches in its BIOS. The IDE is OS/2, : the SCSI is FreeBSD. Everything is peachy except that the bootblock : defaults to the IDE controller/device. I have to manually point the : bootstrap code to my SCSI disk (as per the note displayed on boot). : I tire of this. (been doing it for a few weeks now!) How do I : rewrite the bootblock so that it *defaults* to the SCSI drive? Do I : use "disklabel?" Must I be in single user mode? : Advice sought! I don't want to blow away my boot block and have to : do a reinstall... :-) (and be no better off!) : I grep'd the FAQ but didn't find this one covered (or in the index). : Thanks! you must compile a new XXboot and bootXX (in /sys/i386/boot , or so ) in boot.c is a line "part=unit=0" change it to "part=0 ;unit=1" and recompile it. there appears XXboot and bootXX, this write onto disk (disklabel) in this Makefile is also a point to do this with 'make $#$#@$' , i think Bis denne ... Lars