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- From: zeke@znext (james dehnert)
- Subject: Re: Help! Installing 3.0 on external HD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.170814.9221@znext.cts.com>
- Sender: zeke@znext.cts.com (james dehnert)
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- References: <ntomczak.726619722@vega>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:08:14 GMT
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- In article <ntomczak.726619722@vega> ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N
- Tomczak-Jaegermann) writes:
- - I had a misfortune to train thourougly booting from other devices than
- - a default sd0 :-).
- .
- .
- .
- - b) Go back to monitor and 'halt'.
- - c) At 'NeXT>' prompt type 'bsd(2,0,0)-a'. This means 'ask
- - for root device'. An option 'rootdev=sd2' never worked for me.
-
- This looked a bit wrong to me, so i checked it out in the reboot man page.
-
- The syntax of the b boot command is:
-
- device[(ctrl,unit,part)][file][flags]
-
- where device is the type of the device to be searched, ctrl
- is the controller number, unit is the unit number of the
- disk or tape, and part is the disk partition number.
-
- so the syntax should be
- 'b sd(0,2,0)' to boot off of sd2 partition a. The NeXT only has one
- controller ( unless you have an extra cpu card a la Spherical ) an that one
- defaults to 0. The syntax provided would probably confuse the system, and the
- -a flag is what saves you. It looks for controler 2, cant find it, and then
- defaults to 0 because thats the only one. It's still not sure what you want,
- but you did use that -a flag, so it asks, then your on your way.
- I bet that 'b sd -a' would work just as well in this situation.
-
- Zeke
-
- -
- - Michal Jaegermann
- - ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
- -
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