From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 21:47:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06657 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:47:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06635 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:47:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id GAA27218 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 06:42:10 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA03643; 11 Feb 98 21:21:23 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 11 Feb 98 13:40:19 +0100 Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Linux/Chos (or other boot loader) Message-ID: <05d_9802112121@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11 Feb 98 05:03:20 Doug White wrote regarding Re: FreeBSD/Linux/Chos (or other boot loader) >> help i've a four Ide disk system and wish to install freebsd on the >> primary slave (adbout 1gig) and retain the individual linux and >> windoze (games) disks and boot into each as i want. any ideas? DW> Unless you use a fancy bootmanager, you can only boot from the DW> first two. I believe you can boot any disk from the install-floppy. If you can make a kernel which specifyes the root on the primary slave, then put it on the dos-partition, and run fbsdboot from dos. It can be a tricky thing to bootstrap; I moved my 4.th scsi to a working fbsd-machine, installed it, and moved it back. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message