Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!amail.amdahl.COM!sid.boyce From: sid.boyce@amail.amdahl.COM Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Shoelace devices +(HD6 boot?) Message-ID: Date: 3 Jan 91 09:37:54 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 23 X-Unparsable-Date: Thursday, 3 January 1991 00:51 PT Everything boots up fine, except that I get error messages after telling shoelace which partition to boot. /dev/fd0 not found - guessing major and minor device numbers /dev/at0 not found - ditto /dev/hdx not found - ditto ********OOOOPS, it was trying to tell me it couldn't find /dev, I should have been booting off hd3.*************** **** Now to the topic of the second hard disk****** Earl in an article confirmed that you should boot from fd1 and laceup hd5. The only systems me or my colleagues know to allow this is the Zenith, by pressing "esc" just before boot to go into MONITOR and type b1 to boot from floppy 1. It seems that the BIOS is designed to try first floppy 0 and then hard drive 0 and stops if does not find a bootable system on either. Can it be done? I was hoping eventually to use the first hard disk for DOS only and the second for Minix only. ********386 + 1.5.10 ******** Regards Sid....G3VBV. ***** Amdahl (UK) Tech. Ops. Group ******