From owner-freebsd-ia32@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 18:22:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia32@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0351065678 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:22:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gregg.drwho8@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0024A8FC13 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:22:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gregg.drwho8@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so841051eyi.7 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:22:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=FF4CxiToOz6aXTLkcTXrzOblaYjdS5Jo3RO1u+KcORU=; b=sZTYQsMupiLYLbiW6x6SHDYLEtJYMoLo7OspYWz80d2ZDOsl+WCN+5LCXOBueTUQco t4NZEGi5L2G64sfz2osMsVNvjZKhDt0zKehnUIybCi1EEpEFodh/if20a5C1OOxHd/3f robs4tgOLzngN+0Nc1CAOQf8bkGynuxdGDqyc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=jt3OFWm9AGX+oP+X2RugQ6d+mqyYLguZippIQ4uCtzoe/9jyA9FzDFUppSL4YiAfGe XcU+qi0d4H1Q8pLvau+rDRFQhJb15vXMAVKXjE1Wu0dHwL3GGFvVU5atp9ogA4bV6snz 7oDK4XsLiJRvt3TlCKHddNLh/NSrDBYn/O6Qs= Received: by 10.210.128.5 with SMTP id a5mr3163728ebd.151.1226858212307; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:56:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.122.16 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:56:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <18d205ed0811160956s545a63a3o29f2f95ecc6e1fae@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:56:52 -0500 From: "Gregg Levine" To: freebsd-ia32@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Can a chosen known working release of FreeBSD for Intel be booted from the second disk drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia32@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD on the IA-32 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:22:53 -0000 Hello! I have here a system who's currently wearing a pair of disk drives, he can't use any of the larger sizes available. With that thought in mind I've installed a 10G drive as primary, and have gotten a totally different OS working on it, that's not the relevant one for this discussion but that's the first drive. The second drive on the other hand is currently unoccupied. It can be anything up to 8G in size comfortably. So the question is, "Can FreeBSD 7.0 (Version chosen at random) be installed there, and then booted from it, ostensibly using a boot floppy?" Also I am currently exploring the PPS API for NTP, and have gotten it seemingly working on the other OS, but according to an outside expert it works best on FreeBSD. To that end that's what I'll be exploring here. -- ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway."