From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 12:23:50 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 12:23:48 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.arch.bellsouth.net (ns1.arch.bellsouth.net [205.152.173.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB9A37B402 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from bar (ckhome [24.31.106.127]) by ns1.arch.bellsouth.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA01834; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:23:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Christian Kuhtz" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: Subject: RE: boot disk & boot loader Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:22:18 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <14908.61870.629841.316769@guru.mired.org> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -wk, -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