From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 16:30:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18657 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18639 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:30:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA07679 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 01:23:37 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA03470; 05 Feb 98 01:22:01 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 04 Feb 98 23:00:06 +0100 Subject: Re: IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: References: Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" At 04 Feb 98 19:53:29 Doug White wrote regarding Re: IDE Hard Drives > On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, David Lee wrote: > >> I have a question about what IDE drive I can install FreeBSD on. I have >> a hard drive on my primary master with MS-DOS 6.22/Windows 3.11 >> installed, a CD-ROM on my primary slave and a hard drive on my secondary >> master with Linux Red Hat 5.0 installed. I am wondering if FreeBSD >> could be install on a hard drive which is the secondary slave? DW> You can, but you'll have a heck of a time booting it since your DW> BIOS only recognies the first two IDE disks for booting DW> purposes. Using a smart boot selector should work for you DW> though. I use fbsdboot (or is it bootfbsd?) from dos to boot on my 4. scsi-disk. The kernel is on the dos-disk, and a copy also in the root to keep the thing writing config-changes to the kernel happy. Works nicely. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk