Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:22:18 -0500 From: "Christian Kuhtz" <ck@gnu.org> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: boot disk & boot loader Message-ID: <NEBBJKIJGLMGELMBGHEOMEAPCKAA.ck@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <14908.61870.629841.316769@guru.mired.org>
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Mike, thanks, but... > You don't need a BSD boot floppy to install a boot loader - unless > there's some factor you haven't mentioned. As I tried to hint at in the previous post, I have to tell the BIOS to boot off the 2nd disk. When I do so, FreeBSD doesn't properly recognize /dev/ad0 (apparently /dev/ad0 doesn't get initialized properly while the other drive). Why, I don't know, it is recognized any other way, so, I need to build a boot disk. What do I need to put on the boot floppy? (or is it already of the fixit floppy?) > To install the standard > boot manager, you use boot0cfg. You can install it from a running BSD > system. You install it on disk 0 (which should be /dev/ad0 for IDE and > /dev/da0 for SCSI) with a command like "/usr/sbin/boot0cfg -B > /dev/ad0". Some peoople install on both disks, so that F1 boots the > current disk, and F2 switches to the boot menu from the other > disk. For details see the boot0cfg man page. Thanks, that's what I was looking for. So, now I just need to find out what to do to get this done after booting from a floppy. Cheers, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S. "I speak for myself only." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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