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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 1995 22:20:52 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        dc@clark.net (Dave Cottingham)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, dc@clark.net
Subject:   Re: Can't get boot manager to work
Message-ID:  <199511051150.WAA27979@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199511020302.WAA27523@clark.net> from "Dave Cottingham" at Nov 1, 95 10:02:32 pm

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Dave Cottingham stands accused of saying:
> 
> I have a PC at home with FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on a SCSI disk.  Recently my
> MSDOS-oriented roommate expressed an interest in using this machine
> for her schoolwork, so I pulled an old 80 Meg IDE disk off the shelf,

Ok, stop there.  You can do two things : when you boot FreeBSD, tell
the BIOS there's no IDE disk, and then change it back to boot DOS, 

 or

Update the bootblocks on the SCSI disk to deal with the messy case of
one IDE/one SCSI disk.  Look at /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.c, the 
comments describe the Makefile option required fo this support.
Make install in that directory, and then use disklabel to write the 
new boot program.

> Dave Cottingham

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