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Date:      Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:38:26 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Cc:        pedrosal@nce.ufrj.br, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot with 4 hard disks
Message-ID:  <199603091238.NAA26266@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603081622.RAA04681@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Mar 8, 96 05:22:38 pm

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As Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Dear Mrs/Sirs:
> > 
> > I have 4 hard disks (2 IDE and 2 SCSI), and installed FreeBSD on the
> > second SCSI disk. How do I boot there?
> 
> Either disable the IDE disks in the BIOS/CMOS or
> use the hd(0,a)/kernel option in the FreeBSD boot.The latter requiring
> to label the IDE disks with a FreeBSD label and write a boot block
> to it.

You could also tweak your kernel config file and wire the SCSI disks
to what the bootstrap claims they were (sd2 and sd3, i suppose).

-- 
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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