From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 31 17:57:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9F037B403; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from merlin@netlink.co.uk) Received: from [213.122.40.78] (helo=maesd.A470.com) by rhenium with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #9) id 15RkKZ-0003d7-00; Wed, 01 Aug 2001 01:57:48 +0100 Received: by maesd.A470.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D038034D6; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:41:23 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:41:23 +0000 From: Darren Wyn Rees To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing boot manager (dual boot, two disks, w2k, freebsd) Message-ID: <20010731234123.A27711@maesd.A470.com> References: <20010731223713.A27921@maesd.A470.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010731223713.A27921@maesd.A470.com>; from merlin@netlink.co.uk on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:37:13PM +0000 User-Agent: Mutt 1.2.5i (OpenBSD 2.8) Organization: A470 X-PGP-812C54B1: F8 79 5E 84 F0 20 A5 62 FA 2D E9 BD BE 06 7D 10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:37:13PM +0000, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > I've installed FreeBSD 4.3 on hard disk two in a box, > with Windows 2000 on hard disk one. I chose not to > install the boot loader as I wasn't sure if it would > work. > > Will the boot loader that comes with FreeBSD be able > to reside on hard disk one, and dual boot hard disk > one and FreeBSD on hard disk two ? FreeBSD is the secondary slave, disk one is primary master, I've tried re-installing it, and installing the boot manager, but when I boot the machine the FreeBSD boot loader just comes up with gibberish ... F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 or F1 ???? F5 Drive 0 WTF. Totally confused. I can boot into Windows 2000, but no way of booting into the FreeBSD disk. -- Darren Wyn Rees merlin@netlink.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message