Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 21:16:25 -0800 (PST) From: Bora Akyol <bora@wireless.stanford.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Bora Akyol <akyol@wireless.stanford.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Loader when both IDE and SCSI present. How to Install? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960101211400.269B-100000@lightning> In-Reply-To: <199601020110.LAA02624@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Hi I already solved this problem. I first installed OS-BS beta version from the CDROM and then hard wired the SCSI drive to be sd2 on the kernel, modified the fstab and everything is fine. Not a big problem, but in my opinion, LINUX booting process is ten times better. Bora On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Bora Akyol stands accused of saying: > > Now I have two IDE drives (one on each controller) and a SCSI > > drive and FreeBSD is on my SCSI drive. When I installed FreeBSD > > I chose to install the boot manager but that did not work apparently. > > Can someone please tell me how to make this boot loader work. > > I can now boot FreeBSD via the floppy but that is kind of awkward and > > requires me to be very alert. By the way I type hd(2,a)/kernel > > at the install floppy boot prompt. > > I'd guess that you're going to have a very hard time with this combination, > depending on what your BIOS does with the second IDE disk. > > Traditional PC-AT BIOSes will only boot from the first two disks. You > may be able to get somewhere using the fbsdboot program and a kernel on > a DOS partition. > > > Bora > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[ > >
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