Date: 04 Feb 98 23:00:06 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <ee4_9802050122@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204105216.15507N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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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
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