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Date:      Sun, 25 Oct 1998 09:55:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        Elvar Efingale <elvar@ooz.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810250953530.849-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000701be003e$94edb010$4906e6ce@drizzt.wintek.com>

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On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Elvar Efingale wrote:

>Hello,
>
>    I just installed FBSD on my 3rd scsi hd in my computer.  I have NT
>installed on the first.  In 2.2.6 and 2.2.7, when I was chosing
>partitions to intsall on, I just looked at the drive with NT, which is
>the boot up drive, and then created everything on the 3rd scsi drive.  
>That seemed to work, but when I boot now, the FBSD bootmagr comes up,
>but only with the choice of booting NT.  I don't have a choice to boot
>FBSD.  Also, I tried using the boot disk, but I do not know what to type
>to boot the kernel on the 3rd scsi hd off of the boot disk.  If you can
>please help, do so..:)

First, does you BIOS support booting SCSI?

My BIOS will nto boot SCSI and so I have had to put my "/" filesystem on a
very small chunk of an IDE drive. The rest of my system is on my SCSI. If
no one else turns up a good answer you might try this.

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/


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