Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:02:55 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: brian william wolter <bwolter@linux.thesadmachine.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot menu and multiple drives Message-ID: <14889.25471.827686.404572@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <114191876@toto.iv>
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brian william wolter <bwolter@linux.thesadmachine.org> types: > > 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. You also *have* to have Windows on the first disk, or Windows won't boot. This is a Windows problem. Personally, I use grub (it's in the ports) for such things, as it can remap drives so that Windows thinks it's on the first drive even when it isn't. > as a side note, i wasn't aware you could have scsi and ATA drives in the > same box... interesting. I get the impression it's fairly common these days. IDE drives are so blasted *cheap*, and the real performance issues for one drive have been fixed. So people throw a big IDE drive into a SCSI system as a backup device, or MP3 storage, or whatever. I did that until I decided I needed the IRQ more than I needed the storage. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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