From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 13: 2:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63D8137B402 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:02:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3897 invoked by uid 100); 2 Dec 2000 21:02:55 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14889.25471.827686.404572@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:02:55 -0600 (CST) To: brian william wolter Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot menu and multiple drives In-Reply-To: <114191876@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG brian william wolter 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. 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