From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 1 01:15:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA08093 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 01:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA08088 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 01:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA11943; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 01:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 01:12:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Peter van Heusden cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD on 2nd SCSI disk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Peter van Heusden wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to boot FreeBSD off the 2nd SCSI disk on a system? I've got > 2 disks, one of which is currently running FreeBSD. I want to install > Win95, but for safety's sake, I want to install it on another hard disk > (so that it doesn't accidentially squelch my FreeBSD :). The Win95 > partitition will of course need to be on HD #1 (SCSI ID 0), so I'm hoping > I can keep FreeBSD on HD #2 (SCSI ID 1). Should be OK assuming you dont have any IDE disks in the system. Just install the boot manager to the first disk and all should be well. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo