Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:40:44 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Operating System Message-ID: <20030515154044.GA33924@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030515095813.017cbd88@mail.servplex.com> References: <000c01c31af2$11a15760$24cade42@ab.hsia.telus.net> <5.2.0.9.2.20030515095813.017cbd88@mail.servplex.com>
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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:00:06AM -0500, Peter Elsner wrote: > uhm... boot managers are for when you have multiple operating systems on a > SINGLE hard drive... > > Not for switching physically between 2 hard drives.... Why not? F5 in the boot manager FreeBSD uses toggles to the next drive. At least FreeBSD tolerates being booted off something other than the C: 0x80 drive. The BIOS boots the boot manager on the first drive whose prior default boot was F5 so after 5 or 10 seconds it hands off to the boot manager on the 2nd drive. And eventually you boot. I happen to have NT4 and FreeBSD 4.8 on the same drive at the moment but that has not always been the case. I suspect the original questioner somehow missed installing the boot manager on the primary drive and only installed on the secondardy. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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