Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 18:21:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Cc: David Kirchner <dpk@eskimo.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot problems (was Re: Western Digital boot failures ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951212181858.206C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9512121704.AA15266@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
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On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Marty Leisner wrote: > > As a note, booteasy will not start FreeBSD off the second disk without > > some reprogramming. You can use OS-BS or any other boot manager if you > > need to boot off the second disk. (I use OS/2's Boot Manager and it > > works great.) > > > > > Hmmm..this hasppened to me (what I do is boot of a slice on the first > disk, and mount a much larger slice from the second disk... > > But I'd like to do aware with the first disk slice... Then you will need to use another boot manager other than booteasy, or fix booteasy. > What reprogramming is necessary for booteasy to start from the second > disk? Also fbsdboot doesn't like booting from the second disk... You have to rewrite it so that it will boot the second disk properly. I don't know the procedure on this. > What is OS-BS? It's a boot manager that can let you boot multiple partitions. A smarter version of booteasy. :-) It's available in the dos/tools directory in the distribution (i think). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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