skrenta@blekko.UUCP (Rich Skrenta) (07/28/89)
Rather than making a bootable floppy, can I make my second hard disk bootable? Is there some limitation which limits booting to the first hard disk, or can I write /etc/hdboot0 and /etc/hdboot1 to /dev/hd1a and boot with hd(111,0)xenix ? Has anyone done this? Rich -- Rich Skrenta "If I ever put ascii graphics in my ...cbmvax!blekko!skrenta signature, shoot me."
frankb@usource.UUCP (Frank Bicknell) (07/31/89)
In article <351@blekko.UUCP> skrenta@blekko.UUCP (Rich Skrenta) writes: >Rather than making a bootable floppy, can I make my second hard disk >bootable? Is there some limitation which limits booting to the first >hard disk, or can I write /etc/hdboot0 and /etc/hdboot1 to /dev/hd1a >and boot with hd(111,0)xenix ? Has anyone done this? If all you want is to have the second hard disk as /root, I know you can edit /etc/default/boot to do this. Check the manual under boot(ADM) (I think it's in the ADM section). This doesn't do exactly what you want (ie, really boot from the second disk), but after the boot xenix prompt, the second hard disk is the root device. The parameter you want to change is: DEFBOOTSTR=hd(40)xenix change it so that the boot string specifies xenix on the second drive (which I _believe_ is the 104 minor device number, but I'm not sure and can't try it from my terminal here :) ). Experiment with it. -- Frank Bicknell UniSource; 1405 Main St, Ste 709; Sarasota, FL 34236 attctc!usource!frankb || frankb@usource.UUCP