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Date:      Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:21:12 +0000
From:      Mark Blackman <tmb@rcru.rl.ac.uk>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, tmb@mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk
Subject:   Re: Experiences with aout-to-elf and new bootblocks 
Message-ID:  <199901211021.KAA64271@mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:53:48 %2B0200." <74039.916912428@axl.noc.iafrica.com> 

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FWIW, I've done it under 2.2.7 by

1) installing booteasy on both wd0 *AND* wd2
2) altering the boot.config to
   1:wd(2,a)kernel
3) compiling above kernel with
   config          kernel  root on wd2

Mark

In message <74039.916912428@axl.noc.iafrica.com>, Sheldon Hearn writes:
>
>
>On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:21:45 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
>
>> Well, kind of. You "hard code" the name wd2 in your kernel
>> configuration file. Loader assigns numbers sequentially.
>
>FWIW, I've never seen FreeBSD boot off a drive on the secondary IDE
>controller using a boot manager on the primary. I haven't tried with
>CURRENT.
>
>Ciao,
>Sheldon.
>
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