The NEXTSTEP/OpenStep FAQ

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4.20 How to boot NEXTSTEP from the second (higher SCSI ID) HD?

Boot, from higher SCSI ID Boot, from second drive

Use the following command.

bsd(1,0,0) -a

which will then ask you for the drive to use as the root disk, or still easier,

bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1

In the boot command the name of the bootfile can be replaced by '-'. This is very useful as the length of the bootcommand which can be stored in the permanent memory is very limited (on NeXT machines only). So the only way to eg. increase the number of buffers permanently to 128 in the boot command is to use the following boot command: sd- nbu=128 (sdmach nbu=128 would have been too long).



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