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In article <ntomczak.726619722@vega> ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N  
Tomczak-Jaegermann) writes:
- I had a misfortune to train thourougly booting from other devices than
- a default sd0 :-).
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-   b)  Go back to monitor and 'halt'.
-   c)  At 'NeXT>' prompt type 'bsd(2,0,0)-a'.  This means 'ask
-       for root device'.  An option 'rootdev=sd2' never worked for me.

  This looked a bit wrong to me, so i checked it out in the reboot man page.

     The syntax of the b boot command is:

          device[(ctrl,unit,part)][file][flags]

     where device is the type of the device to be searched, ctrl
     is the controller number, unit is the unit number of the
     disk or tape, and part is the disk partition number.

  so the syntax should be 
	'b sd(0,2,0)' to boot off of sd2 partition a.  The NeXT only has one  
controller ( unless you have an extra cpu card a la Spherical ) an that one  
defaults to 0.  The syntax provided would probably confuse the system, and the  
-a flag is what saves you.  It looks for controler 2, cant find it, and then  
defaults to 0 because thats the only one.  It's still not sure what you want,  
but you did use that -a flag, so it asks, then your on your way.
  I bet that 'b sd -a' would work just as well in this situation.

  Zeke

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-     Michal Jaegermann
-     ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
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