From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 26 04:26:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3A516A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 04:26:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web51108.mail.yahoo.com (web51108.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B55043D45 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 04:26:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from raincip@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 91830 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Nov 2004 04:26:38 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=stWebEPGw99WuYq9Fj4yVt3Hn0Ka7MzyZtyBwC56BHbXf147gfMO4ejUHrT+gqBqiuBRStNr9sSDEIUsx6InEcxnSOOkFCQVYLuX2l9N8rmbfXdqACXjRmxDttyk6nZPc4QBRbbx2vvVuzdrYjEw83ic18wrdlzaP6YjpXiN1FY= ; Message-ID: <20041126042638.91826.qmail@web51108.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.177.237.27] by web51108.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:26:38 PST Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:26:38 -0800 (PST) From: rain cip To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 04:26:39 -0000 Hello, I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and ad3. My hardware configuration is such: ad0 -- primary IDE, master (all for Win2k) ad3 -- secondary IDE, slave (all for FreeBSD 5.3) No more device on the primary IDE while a CD drive acts as the master on the secondary IDE. I used the entire space on ad3 for a FreeBSD 5.3 release installation while the ad0 contains my old Win 2k. The problem now is that I can't boot FreeBSD at all even though I had selected "install boot manager" during the installation. The PC went straight to Win2k every time I booted. I tried to reboot from the distribution CDROM and used the FDISK utility to make sure that the FreeBSD slice is flagged as "A=" but it did nothing. In the BIOS setting, I selected the slave drive, i.e. ad3, to be the first boot device, and the ad0 to be second. Still, I couldn't get to FreeBSD. It appears to me that I did not have the boot manager installed on the ad0. But when I tried to "install boot manager" onto the ad0, the fdisk gave me no hint where to write the MBR. Basically what I did was: select "install boot manager" select "ad0" hit the "q" key select "install boot manager" select "ad3" hit the "q" key I know I must have done something wrong. But what did I do wrong? rain --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.