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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:04:25 -0600
From:      Peter Kuyarov <Peter@Impact8.com>
To:        'erich alfred heine' <eheine@students.uiuc.edu>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Installing to secondary hdd
Message-ID:  <572C6148D69AD4119DEB00D0B765D10B040DC5@EXCHSERVER>

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in lilo just make it point to not say /dev/hdb1 but /dev/hdb (which is MBR
basically, it might complain but it shoudl work and make sure hdb is marked
as active.) also you might need to have an option that says somethign along
the lines of loader=/boot/chain.b (I don't use that option, but I hear
sometimes u have to have it.) Right now I have lilo booting from hdb then it
either from there boots Win95 on hda or boots FBSD on hda also.

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of erich alfred
heine
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 3:00 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject: Installing to secondary hdd


Hi all,

I am wanting to install freebsd on my secondary hard disk.  If i do this,
can I just put the freebsd loader on that disk's MBR and have lilo point
to it? If I can do that, does anyone know how to set up lilo that way?

Also, when it comes time to get rid of linux on my primary disk and make
it into free space, can I just switch the secondary disk to the primary
disk, and vice versa, since the secondary disk's MBR has the freebsd
loader on it? or would I need to change anything (besides the jumpers on
the hard drives and the cables).

Thanks
Erich Heine



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