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From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install problems with Jaz
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If you plan on running more than one OS on your machine you will have
to eventually install a boot manager.
Otherwise, you'll have to instruct your system to boot off the Jaz
drive and not the hard drive in your PC.

Rudy


---Tanvir Hassan <tanvir@mail.org> wrote:
>
> I installed freebsd onto a Jaz disk and things seemed to work with the
> aha2940 drivers.  There was an initial complaint about an inability to
> get geometry info from the jaz disk but it seemed to guess the right
> values and the install went all the way through with tons of disk
access
> without errors.
> 
> But, now I have a stupid question.  I didn't want the freebsd to
> overwrite my MBR, so how do I boot this disk?  I tried to use my
initial
> boot disk to point it to the scsi disk but it never seems to find it! 
> Is that geometry problem coming back to haunt me?
> 
> My Linux has this neat utility where I copy a kernel image to a dos
> partition and I can run a Win95 program to boot using that image.  Is
> there an equivalent utility for FreeBSD?  It is VERY frustrating to
> spend all that time installing stuff and have a full disk but NO WAY
to
> boot it! :-)
> 

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