From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 0:36:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B83137B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 00:36:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp246.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.246]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eB28aAC28640; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 00:36:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3A2885C6.3416AA37@ndsu.nodak.edu> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 00:36:39 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Jeff Blaufuss Subject: RE: FreeBSD boot menu and multiple drives Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Dec-00 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? You can chooose, but you will need to install the FreeBSD Boot Manager on the _first_ disk. You can do this with boot0cfg after installing. See the boot0cfg(8) manpage. > I am Running FreeBSD 4.1. > > Jeff Blaufuss -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message