Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!stanford.edu!unix!unix.sri.com!felix From: felix@ai.sri.com (Francois Felix INGRAND) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: How to boot by default fom an external disk. Message-ID: Date: 20 Apr 91 23:52:56 GMT Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM Distribution: comp Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 28 We just built an external bootable disk for our NeXT Station, and we would like to boot on it by default. the command to boot on it is: b sd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=/dev/sd1a (if we do not specify the rootdev argument, it boots on /dev/sd1a but switch to /dev/sd0a as root partition) As a result this command is too long (>12 characters) and cannot be given as the default boot command in the Console monitor. Is there any way (without rebuilding the kernel) to specify that the rootdev is now /dev/sd1a? (so we could avoid the rootdev argument and therefore use a shorter command) If this is not possible, how can we change the scsi number of the internal disk?... My guess is that if we give it a higher number than the external one, them their names will swap (sd1a sd0a)... Thanks in advance, -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Francois Felix INGRAND SRI International, AIC felix@AI.SRI.COM 333, Ravenswood Avenue (415) 859-5584 MENLO PARK, CA 94025, USA "Read my Lisp... No new syntax" (nil)