From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 19:32:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from admin.cyberenet.net (admin.cyberenet.net [204.213.252.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D922C14D42 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:32:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toadie@cyberenet.net) Received: from ppp27.chhill.eticomm.net ([208.9.145.27] helo=cyberenet.net) by admin.cyberenet.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11WW1L-0004FJ-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:32:35 -0400 Message-ID: <37F2CA36.E8CA511C@cyberenet.net> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:25:58 -0400 From: "Alan L. Clarke" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "QUESTIONS, FREEBSD" Subject: MBR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have several quetions concerning the MBR. 1. I understand that each disk on a drive contains a MBR. 2. I have 2 IDE drives. The first (primary) has an OS installed, and the second has nothing on it. If place freebsd on the second drive and do not touch the primary drive, how does the "system" know what's on the 2nd drive (freebsd) if the primary drive boots up the other OS. 3. Does the boot manager that I "think" I placed on the second drive communicate to the "system"? I have read info on boot managers, and it appears that all the booting must be done from the primary drive. Thanks Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message