Subject: Re: Booting BSD from SCSI
To: Bartek Dederen <bartek@bartek-dedersen.de>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-install
Date: 11/26/2001 21:00:02
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Bartek Dedersen wrote:
> I have solved the problem with Linux in this way:
> - made a small /boot partition on my IDE drive
> - lilo booted the kernel from the IDE driven loaded the
> SCSI-drivers and finally mounted the SCSI HDD as root filesystem.
> 
> 
> With NetBSD I do not know what to do. May I do it in the same way?

That should work also on NetBSD, yes. Just make a kernel with "config root
on sd0a", and you should be fine.


> What bootloader I have to use?

NetBSD's one and only?
Of course others may work too, I've used grub for a long time to boot
NetBSD. 


 - Hubert

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