[1365] in NetBSD-Development
Re: 2nd IDE bus, installation, boot floppies, boot loader
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jmmikkel@MIT.EDU)
Sat Aug 3 20:04:28 1996
From: jmmikkel@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 20:02:58 -0400
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: yoav@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199608030339.XAA05032@glacier.MIT.EDU> (message from Greg Hudson on Fri, 02 Aug 1996 23:39:57 EDT)
> possible solution at the end.) To the best of my knowledge, Linux or
> DOS can't be booted off a disk the BIOS can't find; Solaris/x86 might
Actually, I have proven empirically that Linux can; it boots just
fine off a partition on the same disk. Now I won't hesitate to say
that I don't know how it works, and the lilo docs imply it won't. :)
> * None of us in SIPB have ever tried using the old boot
> loader, so we don't know if it works.
That doesn't bother me...
But anyway. Thank you for letting me know how to make the right
kernel for a boot floppy (though creating the installation floppy
involved copying directories and typing 'make' so it isn't really
extensible).
As for the BIOS problem, I had already pretty much accepted defeat,
and was trying to find out how to do what I wanted given *the problem
with the BIOS went away*.
I'm about to give up on this, however I would at least like to have
someone check on why exactly a second IDE bus isn't supported. If
it's really that it causes trouble, that's fine, but I didn't have
any expectation of that... And while I accept it's a little strange
to *have* a disk on the second IDE bus, I'd definitely gotten the
impression that having the second bus isn't "weird", my brand-new
computer at work has one...
Also, I'm surprised more people haven't wanted a boot floppy... Does
nobody but me mess up their system? :-)
Joanne
