4.2BSD boot from slave 1 disk

Ed Gould ed at mtxinu.UUCP
Tue Mar 26 09:35:50 AEST 1985


> 
> I have a 4.2BSD  system I wish to boot from an ra81,  which
> happens to be slave 1 (not 0) on the uda50. I can certainly
> do:
> 
> 	>>> B ANY
> 	:ra(1,0)vmunix
> 
> but I'd rather  not type that each time.  Is there a way to
> modify /sys/floppy/rasboo.cmd so that
> 
> 	>>> B RAS
> 
> will boot from slave 1 instead of 0?
> 
> 	Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> -- 
> ---
> 				steve kahn
> 				johns hopkins applied physics lab
> 				laurel, md
> 				...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!milo!steve

You'll have to recompile the boot program and install the new
one on the floppy.  That's where the string you need to change is.

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