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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hplextra!news.dtc.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!reink From: reink@neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Floppy booting aha1510 Date: 12 Dec 1994 20:24:07 GMT Organization: Hewlett Packard Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3cibh7$j61@hpscit.sc.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hpuamsa.neth.hp.com Keywords: NetBSD 1.0 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have a scsi hd connected to an aha1510 scsi controller. The aha1510 has no BIOS so you cant boot off it directly. But so I figured, why not boot a kernel off the floppy, but use sd0 (the scsi hd on the 1510) as root. So I configured a kernel with the following line in the config file config netbsd root on sd0 swap on sd0 compiled it, copied it onto a floppy and booted. After the kernel is loaded it asks "Insert filesystem floppy" so i just pressed enter. BUT instead of using the configured sd0 as root it uses the floppy as root. Why doesn't this work the way I think it should work? Reinier Kleipool reinier_kleipool@hpitcb.desk.hp.com