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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Boot string for secondary IDE disk?
Date: 27 Dec 1995 11:38:40 GMT
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Brian 'Doc' O'Neill <oneill@cs.uml.edu> writes:
> Simple question...what would be the boot string to boot FreeBSD 2.1 off
> an IDE hard drive set up as the master disk on the secondary controller?

Simple?  Dunno.

Assuming the primary controller has two drives, i assume this would be
``wd(2,a)/kernel''.  This assumes that FreeBSD will know the drive as
`wd2', and the BIOS does know it as 0x82.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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