From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 03:47:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA29924 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 03:47:12 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA29916 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 03:47:07 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA27979; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 22:20:53 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511051150.WAA27979@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Can't get boot manager to work To: dc@clark.net (Dave Cottingham) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 22:20:52 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, dc@clark.net In-Reply-To: <199511020302.WAA27523@clark.net> from "Dave Cottingham" at Nov 1, 95 10:02:32 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1092 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[