Date: 14 May 2005 09:02:16 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@TheWorld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing hdd in multiboot system Message-ID: <447ji27yg7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200505130632.CAA5013623@shell.TheWorld.com> References: <200505130632.CAA5013623@shell.TheWorld.com>
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Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@TheWorld.com> writes: > 1. Can I boot MS-DOS from da0 and FreeBSD from da1 using boot > managers available with FreeBSD? If so, how do I configure > that? (In other words, replace LILO on da0.) Sure. How you do it depends on which boot manager you use. With the standard one that can be installed from sysinstall, there's nothing to configure once it's on the primary disk. > 2. FreeBSD's boot "remembers" what was last booted & uses that; > how do I configure a "default" booting OS? Use another bootloader. There are several popular ones in the ports collection. > 3. I might replace that old dpt HBA with, say, an Adaptec or a > Symbios-based Tekram; will that affect things such as drive > geometries? I don't think so. > 4. Anything I might be missing here? Common overlooked issues? > Warnings? Gotchas? You're planning a new install, alone on a new disk, so it's pretty "vanilla" and pretty safe.
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