From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 7:49: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from [209.49.190.34] (fireout.mbakercorp.com [209.49.190.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10A5037B409 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 07:49:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from admin_4.mbakercorp.com by [209.49.190.34] via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 16 Oct 2001 14:49:01 UT Received: from gatedom-Message_Server by mbakercorp.com with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:48:56 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.4.1 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:48:44 -0400 From: "Joseph Wright" To: Subject: Booting freebsd from floppy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 I have freebsd 4.4 installed on my second hd and win2000 on my first(primar= y) hd. What I want is to be able stick a disk in the machine and boot = freebsd from floppy instead of using the boot manager but if there is not = a disk in it will boot win2000. I have both os's installed and it boots to win2000 but what do i type at = the ok: prompt to boot from the second slice of the second hard drive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message