From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 11:57:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01143 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:57:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01120 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:57:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10573; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:57:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:57:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: GhostLV cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP In-Reply-To: <002901bdbe31$a76dae60$3f05ea18@ross.lvcablemodem.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, GhostLV wrote: > I'm pretty new in FreeBSD and so far installation has been a nightmare > for me, compared to Red Hat Linux, but I'm not giving up. I initially > had some problem getting the install to recognize my third HD. Warning: PC BIOSes generally can't boot more than the first two disks in the system. Fancy boot managers (Partition Magic's / OS/2's boot manager comes to mind) but booteasy isn't that smart. In other words, you aren't going to be able to boot this partition, even if you do get it installed. > I finally got the install to recognize the drive and choose to install > BOOT MANAGER ON THE DRIVE I WAS INSTALLING FBSD ON, BUT NOT THE > PRIMARY DRIVE. Known problem. Simply install booteasy onto that disk; see the FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ for instructions. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message