From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 21:26:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.thesadmachine.org (dsl254-008-078-sea1.dsl-isp.net [216.254.8.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1847837B401 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:26:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 96446 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Dec 2000 05:36:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Dec 2000 05:36:08 -0000 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 23:36:08 -0600 (CST) From: brian william wolter To: Jeff Blaufuss Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot menu and multiple drives In-Reply-To: <3A2885C6.3416AA37@ndsu.nodak.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > will I have to go into the BIOS each time I want to swich OSes and > change the boot disk order? yes you should be able to do that without a problem... i, however have had quite a few problems with the freebsd boot manager and prefer to use lilo (the LInux LOader)... but it *should* be able to do it and hopefully you will have better luck than i did. as a side note, i wasn't aware you could have scsi and ATA drives in the same box... interesting. peace, brian t h e S a d M a c h i n e . o r g On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Jeff Blaufuss wrote: > I am getting a new scsi hard drive in addition to the ATA drive already > in my computer. I plan to have Windows boot off the ATA disk and > FreeBSD boot off the scsi one. Will I be able to choose between FreeBSD > and windows with the boot menu when the OSes are on different drives, or > will I have to go into the BIOS each time I want to swich OSes and > change the boot disk order? > > I am Running FreeBSD 4.1. > > Jeff Blaufuss > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message