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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Being a new user of FreeBSD... Date: 23 Jun 1996 19:32:05 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4qk63l$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31c8dad5.1965280@news.ust.hk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) me_lap@uxmail.ust.hk ( ªü «~ ) wrote: > My system is P133, one 1.2G Fireball and one 1.2G Conner. Both of > them are connnected as master, i.e. one at ide1 and other at ide2. In FreeBSD terms, this would be wd0 and wd2 (with wd1 missing - the slave drive of the first controller). Only very recent bootblocks can cope with situation (by requiring you to manually enter the mapping between the BIOS drive number and the FreeBSD disk name). If you wanna give it a try, any SNAP younger than April 7 contains this code (i.e., the 960501 and 960606 SNAPs). You don't strictly need to upgrade your entire system to the SNAP, just only the bootblocks would suffice. But upgrading the bootblocks only is a bit tricky and requires some insight into the hairy details. p.s.: Bruce, don't'ya think you should also merge the new bootblock code into 2.1-stable? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)