Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:59:47 +1030 From: Ian Moore <imoore@picknowl.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk Message-ID: <200411271359.56155.imoore@picknowl.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200411270051.02080.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <20041126042638.91826.qmail@web51108.mail.yahoo.com> <200411270051.02080.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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--nextPart1532877.DxI91mUlqz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:21, RW wrote: > On Friday 26 November 2004 04:26, rain cip 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) > > > > No more device on the primary IDE while a CD drive acts as the master on > > the secondary IDE. > > It's not in general a very good idea to mix a CD drive and a hard drive on > the same ide channel since they operate at the speed of the slower device. So, assuming you do have a cdrom drive on the secondary controller, you cou= ld=20 move your ad3 drive to the primary IDE controller & boot from the Live CDro= m=20 to edit /etc/fstab to point to ad1 instead of ad3. That way you can run both windows & FBSD without compromising disk speed! > I've never actually used the FreeBSD Boot manager, so I can't really > comment on that. What you might do is install a standard MBR on ad3 and s= et > your bios to boot that device. Once you have FreeBSD running, you can > install GRUB from ports/packages, and put that on ad0. Alternately if you > have some kind of Linux live cd, you might install lilo from that. > Or as Joshua suggested, use GAG - it's the easiest bootmanager to install &= =20 configure that I've ever seen. Cheers, =2D-=20 Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc --nextPart1532877.DxI91mUlqz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBp/S0fITqkXhImmIRApmpAJ0Qdi+EpjAbH2v7eKLGSdF2ngDmyQCgsHjR q5UYk2aiBWyduOBYCDdKWCY= =FtV0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1532877.DxI91mUlqz--
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