From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 7 07:05:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16069 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 07:05:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from basil.stthom.edu (basil.stthom.edu [199.3.235.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA16062 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 07:05:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@basil.stthom.edu) Received: from basil.stthom.edu (dial18.as2.phoenix.net [205.240.148.81]) by basil.stthom.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA24040; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 09:06:37 -0800 Message-ID: <34DC2372.4FF3F7BF@basil.stthom.edu> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 09:03:47 +0000 From: Jim Joseph Reply-To: jcj@phoenix.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: manly CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot References: <34DBD245.927CB47@adelphia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" manly wrote: > > Yes, i currently have installed FreeBSD 2.5 release on my system. I can > not get it to boot. Im also running winblow95. Winblows 95 is on my > first hard drive(master) and BSD is on my second(slave). How can i boot > up BSD on a floppy or just boot up, so i can use the your beastly OS. > > Thanks please mail ASAP manly@adelphia.net This may not hold true for all machines, but on mine I could only use FreeBSD if the root partition is one the primary(master drive) The machine(Compaq) just would not boot from the slave device. Eventually I decided the hell with Micro$oft Winblows and I just used FreeBSD. I am a lot happier now :) ---------------------------------- Jim Joseph Email: jcj@phoenix.net Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it.