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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!apanix.apana.org.au!miff From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [FreeBSD] Booting frm sd0 as default? Date: 24 Aug 94 16:31:00 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 39 Message-ID: <miff.777745860@apanix.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au Keywords: booting FreeBSD Gotta be a FAQ 8) (but I can't find it there 8( ) I have 2 disks : one wd-style, with DOS alone. One sd-style, with FreeBSD. I have boot-easy to boot the second disk for me, that's fine. I can type hd(1,a)/386bsd and boot from the second disk just dandy, but I'm not always there, and it doesn't take very long for most machines to count from 240,000 to zero these days. I've tried changing part = unit = 0; maj = (drive&0x80 ? 0 : 2); in /sys/i386/boot/boot.c to part = 0; unit = 1; maj = 1; but then horrible things happen... the segment of the prompt that looked like [[[wd(0,a) now looks like [[[f(0,a. This doesn't make a lot of sense to me - devs[maj] should be "hd" for maj == 1. Who wrote it? who can I hit? 8) Seriously - if anyone (and I can only assume that someone must) has done this before, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks. -- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' # # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental # # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #