Most people responded with the solution for booting off of
any disk but few provided the answer for *rooting* off of
an alternate disk. The answers are:
For booting:
sd(0,1,0)
| | | |
| | | ----- Partition number. 0=a, 1=b, ... 7=h
| | ------- Drive/Device number. 0 for disk 0, 1 for disk 1...
| --------- Controller number. 0 for built-in controller
----------- Device type. sd=scsi disk.
You can give these as parameters to the reboot command too.
For Rooting:
Change the kernel descriptions and make a new kernel, as follows:
in your kernel configuration file:
config vmunix root on type 4.2 sd2a swap on type spec sd2b
then change the eeprom default boot device to "sd2()vmunix". build
a new kernel, install it on sd2a, and reboot
Also:
>b sd(0,2,0)vmunix -a
and you will be asked for various devices.
Thank to the following and others:
John DiMarco <jdd@db.toronto.edu>
holle@ASC.SLB.COM
Rick Dipper <rick@computer-science.manchester.ac.uk>
R.Haigh <lnp6rh%uk.ac.leeds.sun@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
etnibsd!vsh@uunet.UU.NET (Steve Harris)
kwz@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Kevin Zimmerman)
mphillips@athena.qualcomm.com
lee@sq.com (Liam Quin)
mikulska@ece.UCSD.EDU (Margaret Mikulska)
jmcrowell@ucdavis.edu (John M. Crowell)
tony@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
alek@spatial.com
rmk@snowhit.att.com
"Charles A. Finnell" <finnell@portia.mitre.org>
clyde@sirius.cc.utexas.edu
thlcr!michel (Philippe Michel)
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - Consultant)
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