Re: Local disk boot HOWTO

[Mike Shaver <shaver@neon.ingenia.ca>]

Thus spake Eric Kimminau:
> Has anyone completed a HOWTO for booting from a second local disk yet?

Do you have a root-mountable filesystem on the second disk?
If so:
- put vmlinux on the IRIX /
- boot into sash
boot /vmlinux root=/dev/sdb1

(This is from memory, but it was pretty simple.  Once Miguel told me
how simple it was, of course. =) )

Mike

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