From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 18:22:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA08776 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 18:22:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.212]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA08770 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 18:22:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00249; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 18:21:25 -0800 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 18:21:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Marty Leisner cc: David Kirchner , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot problems (was Re: Western Digital boot failures ) In-Reply-To: <9512121704.AA15266@gnu.mc.xerox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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