Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:30:08 -0600 From: Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mucking with other drive Message-ID: <d9175cad05031715306d9d079d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEMIFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <200503171423.j2HENk202905@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEMIFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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> PC bioses only let you boot off of drive C. If you install this > other drive as drive D then during the installation FreeBSD is going > to have to write a boot loader onto C so that when the PC boots > it will load the boot loader, which will then load the FreeBSD system > off drive D. This is not a limitation of PC BIOSen in general. As a for-instance, I have a PC that will let me boot off of any of the 8 ide hard disks that it has attached to its mobo. Many newish PC moboen that I've looked at have similar/the same setup where you can choose HDD-0, HDD-1... on to HDD-N to boot from. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.
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