Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 22:13:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: tomppa@fidata.fi Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI woes. Message-ID: <199603082113.WAA22905@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603080905.LAA20242@zeta.fidata.fi> from "Tomi Vainio" at Mar 8, 96 11:05:00 am
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As Tomi Vainio wrote: > > > Is it possible to boot off a SCSI hard drive when an IDE is also in > > the system? > > Give it the ``hd(1,a)/kernel'' argument at the boot prompt. > > > What should I do to make this automatic? The newer /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile contains this comment: # Assume hd(*,a) instead of wd(*,a) if the boot seems to happen from # a hard disk. # This can be useful for people booting in a mixed IDE/SCSI environment. #CFLAGS+= -DBOOT_HD You gotta ``make clean obj all install'' there after munging the CFLAGS, and you have to re-label your disks to install the new bootstrap. Sadly enough, all versions of disklabel(8) before this one: ----- revision 1.8 date: 1996/02/03 21:14:09; author: joerg; state: Exp; lines: +27 -0 Try to preserve the fdisk table in the primary bootstrap, should it already exist. Mention the cases where this doesn't work in the BUGS section of the man page. ----- ...will clobber your fdisk table, so you either have to pick a recent disklabel(8), or you must write down the figures from the fdisk table, and manually correct the bogusly installed one later. -- 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. ;-)
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