From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 10 16:33:10 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA11131 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 16:33:10 -0800 Received: from post.demon.co.uk (post.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.72]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA11125 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 16:33:06 -0800 Received: from bagpuss.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id aa19412; 11 Jan 95 0:32 GMT Received: (karl@localhost) by bagpuss.demon.co.uk (99.9/99.9) id AAA17494; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 00:33:25 GMT From: Karl Strickland Message-Id: <199501110033.AAA17494@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> Subject: How can I select which OS to boot ? To: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 00:33:25 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1091 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Currently running a FreeBSD 1.1.x system with an Adaptec 1542B and SCSI disks. FreeBSD is the only OS on the disk(s), so it currently boots straight into that. I'd like to add an IDE disk on which to run DOS. I'd like to be able to boot FreeBSD and then mount the dos partitions from the IDE disk. I guess this is possible with pcfs (?) To get FreeBSD to boot, I would probably disable the IDE disk in the bios config; so I guess that means I cant mount the IDE disk while Im in FreeBSD without somehow frigging the CMOS. So whats the best way around this? Can I install some kinda boot program on the IDE drive, such that I can select to either boot dos (or whatever), or boot from the SCSI drive? I'd prefer not messing with the SCSI disk's partition table, if possible. Thanks for any suggestions. ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Mailed using ELM on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk |