From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 23 07:24:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA15338 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 07:24:05 -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 HAA15286; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 07:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA01269; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:24:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:24:33 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo To: Richard Lyon cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Brian Somers , Joerg Wunsch , hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install to second hard-drive... In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Richard Lyon wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Well, my own experience with 2.1.7 and the following configuration: > > > > Generic 486 blah blah > > 2 IDE HDs > > 1 AHA 1542 w/HD + CDROM > > > With 2.1.5 and the following configuration: > > Generic 486 > 1 IDE HD > 1 AHA 1542 w/HD + CDROM > > FBSD is on the IDE drive and NT4 is on the SCSI drive. > > BOOTEASY sees both drives, but of course you can only boot of the first > drive because of the limitations of BIOS and the 1542. > > I use BIOS to switch between NT and FBSD. I always want to be absolutely > certain that nothing NT can touch FBSD and vice versa. FWIW, I have NT on the first SCSI disk, and FreeBSD on the second - so there is clean separation.. I use the NT boot manager to boot FreeBSD and NT. Works great - just use the "standard MBR" on the FreeBSD disk (sd1), and copy the first 512 bytes of the disk to a file called "BOOTBSD.BIN" on the NT "C:" drive, and edit the BOOT.INI file to add an entry for the BOOTBSD.BIN file. I figured I might as well use the NT boot manager since it was already there, and it has a nice little menu system :-) -Mark > > The current rumour is that a certain NT defragmenter does a lot more than > defrag drives (Ref. OP. Alice). > > Regards ... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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