From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 1 23:29:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA05148 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy-bsb.gns.com.br (m9QEkw8RBxyWOtaM7s2jBOmLB3D/YpJq@srv1-bsb.GNS.com.br [200.239.56.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA05138 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:29:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8832 invoked from network); 2 Aug 1997 06:28:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO srv1-bsb.gns.com.br) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 2 Aug 1997 06:28:50 -0000 Received: (from mail@localhost) by srv1-bsb.gns.com.br (8.8.6/8.8.6) id DAA08808; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 03:28:47 -0300 (EST) Message-Id: <199708020628.DAA08808@srv1-bsb.gns.com.br> Received: from dl0238-bsb.gns.com.br(200.239.56.238) by srv1-bsb.gns.com.br via smap (V2.0) id xmaa08793; Sat, 2 Aug 97 03:27:49 -0300 From: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" To: "Doug White" , "Peter van Heusden" Cc: Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD on 2nd SCSI disk Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 03:01:09 -0300 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. I regret to say that at least your root partition will have to stay in the first HD. At least, I haven't been able to acomplish any other setup. Regards, Mario Ferreira.