From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 9 00:57:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA29689 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:57:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA29681 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:57:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it) Received: from elec.isei.jrc.it (elec.jrc.it) by mrelay.jrc.it (4.1/EB-950131-C) id AA03199; Fri, 9 Jan 98 09:58:40 +0100 Received: from elect6.jrc.it by elec.isei.jrc.it (4.1/EI-3.0m) id AA08852; Fri, 9 Jan 98 09:56:34 +0100 Posted-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:55:45 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:55:45 +0100 (MET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-Sender: dirkx@elect6.jrc.it Reply-To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik To: Rudy Gireyev Cc: tanvir@mail.org, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install problems with Jaz In-Reply-To: <19980108182757.16076.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Message-Id: Reply-Path: Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > I installed freebsd onto a Jaz disk and things seemed to work with the > > aha2940 drivers. There was an initial complaint about an inability to > > get geometry info from the jaz disk but it seemed to guess the right > > values and the install went all the way through with tons of disk > access > > without errors. > > > > But, now I have a stupid question. I didn't want the freebsd to > > overwrite my MBR, so how do I boot this disk? I tried to use my initial > > boot disk to point it to the scsi disk but it never seems to find it! > > Is that geometry problem coming back to haunt me? Hmm, eventually you will _have_ to install a boot manager of some sort; Expect for the case where you are willing to go into the BIOS setup and change the boot order (C:, D:, CDROM,..) time and time again. I use booteasy and a Jaz drive in much the same manner and can boot between versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD, W95, NT and Linux just fine. The only notable exception is Solaris :-( for which I have to go into the bios. Anyway, I simply get something along the lines of F1, BSD, F2 Dos, f5 Next disk, and can cycle through the 4 drives just fine. I use an Adaptec 2940 and 2x external Jaz and 1x SCSI disk. The master/ first disk is on the build in IDE. This is also where I've put the BootEasy boot manager. Dw.