From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 21:23:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA29796 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 21:23:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from wireless.Stanford.EDU (wireless.Stanford.EDU [36.10.0.102]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA29791 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 21:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning (tip-mp6-ncs-10.Stanford.EDU [36.173.0.121]) by wireless.Stanford.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA02965; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 21:16:22 -0800 Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 21:16:25 -0800 (PST) From: Bora Akyol X-Sender: bora@lightning To: Michael Smith cc: Bora Akyol , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Loader when both IDE and SCSI present. How to Install? In-Reply-To: <199601020110.LAA02624@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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." [[ > >