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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:40:44 -0500
From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
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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.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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