From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 27 18:17:49 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA15259 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 18:17:49 -0700 Received: from tippy.vnet.net (tippy.vnet.net [166.82.197.240]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA15250 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 18:17:42 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by tippy.vnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA19512; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 21:17:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 21:17:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Madison To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: MBR and 3rd IDE Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I just installed my 3rd IDE drive (it is very cool to have an up-to-date mother board that can do such things) and am having trouble installing the MBR. Doz boots fine, but BSD doesn't:-( I used sysinstall to try and rewrite the MBR and it does not seem to like having to deal with 3 ide drives. Using the lastest snap-shot boot/ root disks, I can select wd0/1/2 but when I go to set the mount points I have two wd2 options and a wd1 option. Going back to the 2.0.5R boot/root disks I can do what I want and get the option to write the MBR. It seems to write it, but it doesn't as evidenced by booting up. I have the options to go to doz or bsd, but the bsd partition that it offers is on the first ide drive, which is what I have /usr/local/src mounted under. I can boot up with the disk and launch the kernel on my / partition, just can't get an MBR to write that will the dual boot thing. I can use all drives and everything is working fine, except the MBR. Any help or a * would be appreciated. thanx chris ========================================================================== root@tippy.vnet.net | Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ cmmadiso@uncc.edu | Windows95 is the False Prophet ==========================================================================