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From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com>
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Subject: Can one dual boot fbsd?  No?  (was Re: wd0/sd0 can't boot from s
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Hmmm...maybe I'm not clear.  I would like to know if one can dual 
boot two versions of fbsd residing on two disks:  One an ide 
and one a scsi?

Cheers,

Riley


> Just installed 2.2.2-release on the only scsi drive in my 
> system--disabled the ide controller in cmos from previous experience.
> 
> Anyway, install goes ok, boots ok.  Enabled the ide drive, which has 
> 2.1.7 on it.  Gets the boot prompt F1 -DOS, F2-2.1.7 and F5 2nd DISK.
> 
> Press F5 and get "F?".  I've seen this before, and done the fixes 
> recommended by assuming this is a geometry problem.  It doesn't seem 
> to be.
> 
> Used booteasy 2 beta (8?).  No help.
> 
> When F2 is pressed (ide drive 2.1.7) at the boot prompt I type in 
> sd(0,a)/kernel and it boots wd(0,a)/kernel with no errors.  That is 
> it *seems* to take the arguement "sd(0,a)" but runs wd(0,a) and it 
> ends up running 2.1.7, not 2.2.2-R.
> 
> This isn't a show stopper, but I'm curious and I'd *really* like to boot the 
> scsi disk with the ide disk in the system.  Is there a reason I can't?
> 
> os-bs (osbs20b8.exe) locks up when run on the dos partition on the 
> ide disk.  Booteasy seems to configure ok, but craps out under 
> pressure!  :)
> 
> tia,
> 
> Riley
> 
>