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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!bcstec!galileo!dmp3592 From: dmp3592@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Dean M. Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Booting 386BSD from second IDE drive? Summary: PCs do not boot from second drive. Message-ID: <1115@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com> Date: 2 Sep 92 14:09:26 GMT References: <1992Sep1.154658.18258@motor.physiolmotor.physiol> <1992Sep1.172925.26037@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle Lines: 15 In general, a PC clone has no way to boot from a second drive. The BIOS ROM does not support this. The MSDOS boot code, I think, does not support this and I know that the wd*.c boot code in 386bsd does not support this. I have a system with a 124Mb drive 0 and a 42Mb drive 1. I worked around this problem by creating a 31.9Mb DOS partition and a 92Mb 386bsd partion on drive 0. Drive 1 is 100% 386bsd. I put the man pages and emacs and some other less often used stuff on the 42Mb drive because it is slower. This partitioning is less convient than having it all in one piece but it does allow me to switch back and forth without minor surgery. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <standard_disclaimer.h> Dean M. Phillips (206) 393-9333 Boeing Commercial Airplane Group dmp3592@galileo.boeing.com