Subject: Re: Installing onto a secondary drive
To: Andrew Steven Ball <kb9ylw@cyberspace.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/01/2001 15:02:26
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:56:48PM -0400, Andrew Steven Ball wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> The installation seemed to go well, but I don't recall being
> asked whether I wanted a boot selector.  I have installed
> NetBSD on a secondary drive, I just can't boot it.  This
> machine should be running NetBSD all the time, so I'll
> probably switch the disks around and have NetBSD on the
> primary one, using the secondary one as some extra storage
> space. Out of interest though, is it possible to boot NetBSD
> on a secondary ATA disk?

Yes, you just need to run 'fdisk -B wd0' from shell prompt to install
the boot selector on the first disk.
You may also be able to tell your BIOS to boot from D:

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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