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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Bypassing boot options screen in FreeBSD Date: 20 Jul 1994 20:37:28 +0200 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD 1.1.5 Usenet Site Lines: 24 Message-ID: <30jqtm$133@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <30eoi0$45k@venus.mcs.com> <30fi2l$978@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <30gmv9$fs1@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <30gmv9$fs1@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, Jeff Aitken <jaitken@vt.edu> wrote: > Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote: > directory on ftp.cdrom.com (not os-bs, the other one) It allows me to > boot off of the second one just fine, but the default kernel to boot is > wd(0,a), when I want it to be wd(1,a). Is there a way to change this so > I don't have to type wd(1,a) every time? Recompile the boot blocks and reinstall the label on wd0. /sys/i386/boot/boot.c ------------------------------------------------------------ loadstart: /***************************************************************\ * As a default set it to the first partition of the first * * floppy or hard drive * \***************************************************************/ part = unit = 0; <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< put a 1 here maj = (drive&0x80 ? 0 : 2); /* a good first bet */ name = names[currname++]; ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Ollivier ROBERT roberto@hsc.fr.net Hervé Schauer Consultants Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net PERL / MIME / PGP 2.6ui FreeBSD keltia 1.1.5(RELEASE) RELEASE#0 i386