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- From: dmp3592@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Dean M. Phillips)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Booting 386BSD from second IDE drive?
- Summary: PCs do not boot from second drive.
- Message-ID: <1115@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 14:09:26 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.154658.18258@motor.physiolmotor.physiol> <1992Sep1.172925.26037@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
- Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle
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- In general, a PC clone has no way to boot from a second drive. The BIOS
- ROM does not support this. The MSDOS boot code, I think, does not support
- this and I know that the wd*.c boot code in 386bsd does not support this.
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- I have a system with a 124Mb drive 0 and a 42Mb drive 1. I worked around
- this problem by creating a 31.9Mb DOS partition and a 92Mb 386bsd partion
- on drive 0. Drive 1 is 100% 386bsd. I put the man pages and emacs and
- some other less often used stuff on the 42Mb drive because it is slower.
- This partitioning is less convient than having it all in one piece but it
- does allow me to switch back and forth without minor surgery.
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- Boeing Commercial Airplane Group dmp3592@galileo.boeing.com
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