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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:55:21 -0600
From: Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:26:38 -0800 (PST), rain cip <raincip@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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)
> 
> 
>
> 
> I know I must have done something wrong.  But what did I do wrong?

I'm not sure.  I know that I use a tool called GAG to boot mutliple
OSes from assorted locations, and it has always worked very well for
me.

http://gag.sourceforge.net/

HTH,

-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate