From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 23 07:19:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA15053 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 07:19:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA15035; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 07:19:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA01248; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:19:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:19:58 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Brian Somers , Joerg Wunsch , hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install to second hard-drive... In-Reply-To: <5770.856702695@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > As Joerg Wunsch wrote: > > > > > I don't know whether booteasy can handle more than one drive. I > > > remember somebody saying that os-bs is better in this respect. > > > > > osbs20b8 works with more than one drive, and is pretty (it gives you > > a nice menu), but not with some BIOSs - specifically any laptops I've > > tried (but then, you won't have two disks, so os-bs, the previous version, > > will suffice). > > Well, my own experience with 2.1.7 and the following configuration: > DOS is on 1st HD, FreeBSD on 2nd and 3rd HDs (all 3 of which > DOS can see when doing a "full" DOS install with its defaults). > > When the 2.1.7 system initially comes up off the HD (install goes > great, without a hitch) you get BOOTEASY with the following prompt: > > F? DOS > > And that's it. No other choices! First time I tried selecting just > the first drive for a boot manager. No joy. Then I reinstalled and > said "boot manager" for every drive. No change. Then I tried > installing BOOTEASY by hand by running bootinst.exe with boot.bin. No Same here. I tried every damn combination of boot manager / standard MBR on each drive, but I couldn't get Boot Easy to see the second FreeBSD hard disk.. Bummer. > difference. Then I installed OSBS20BETA and lo-and-behold it saw the > 2nd drive and its FreeBSD partition, allowing me to add it to the > boot menu. I rebooted and now I could get to the FreeBSD boot blocks, > typing in: 1:wd(1,a)/kernel for a successful boot into FreeBSD. > I'll recommend the OSBS20BETA to my friend, and see if that works. I think the hours of frustration have gotten to him, however, and he decided to nuke win95 and use the first disk for FreeBSD. So, in a way, it turned out to be a happy story :-) Last I saw him, he was ranting about the Microsoft philosphy of making it damn near impossible to boot another OS, and how he refused "to accomodate M$" :-) For the record, I've happily used BOOTEASY on a single disk, with two OS's, but all hell breaks loose when you try to setup multiple disks.. -Mark > So just one bit of first-hand testimony that booteasy may not quite be > a 100% solution. :-( > > Jordan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. -- Arthur Schopenhauer