any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

[Jo Rhett]

John Baldwin wrote:
> A BIOS driver number is the number you pass to the BIOS to access a drive.
> Typically drive 0x0 is a floppy drive and hard drives start at 0x80.
> Usually the SCSI BIOS will list the BIOS driver number during the POST
> messages and it will look like 80, 81, etc.  There is no standard way
> as it is at the BIOS' discretion.

How do I determine this?  It doesn't list them during boot.

Say I boot off the CD, is there any commands I can use to determine what 
the BIOS numbers are?  They are da0 and da1 to freebsd.

> To answer your question: you need to first make sure your SCSI BIOS is
> registering your second disk with the BIOS.  Assuming it's mapped as
> drive 81, you can then use '1:da(1,a)'.  If it shows up as drive 82, then
> use 2:da(1,a)', etc.

How does one do so?

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Jo Rhett
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