From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 02:08:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 782CB16A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:08:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mx00.perfora.net [217.160.230.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E753C43D54 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:08:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dark@sun.com) Received: from bgm-66-24-105-49.stny.rr.com[66.24.105.49] (helo=mxus.perfora.net) by mrelay.perfora.net with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKz5u-1CYay62uos-0000a4; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:08:46 -0500 X-Provags-ID: perfora.net abuse@perfora.net login:6cab55b0e871d867d86bc0851d5d347f Received: by mxus.perfora.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D4AAE5EAA; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:07:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:07:42 -0500 From: Dev Tugnait To: rain cip Message-ID: <20041129020742.GK72404@vampire.bloodlust.net> References: <20041126042638.91826.qmail@web51108.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041126042638.91826.qmail@web51108.mail.yahoo.com> X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://unixdaemon.org X-Operating-System: Unix/5.3-RELEASE (i386) X-Uptime: 9:06PM up 20 days, 4:25, 26 users, load averages: 0.06, 0.15, 0.16 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:08:49 -0000 You can try out vlc i have had great success in playing dvds with it. * rain cip (raincip@yahoo.com) wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and ad3. My hardware configuration is such: > > ad0 -- primary IDE, master (all for Win2k) > ad3 -- secondary IDE, slave (all for FreeBSD 5.3) > > No more device on the primary IDE while a CD drive acts as the master on the secondary IDE. > > I used the entire space on ad3 for a FreeBSD 5.3 release installation while the ad0 contains my old Win 2k. The problem now is that I can't boot FreeBSD at all even though I had selected "install boot manager" during the installation. The PC went straight to Win2k every time I booted. I tried to reboot from the distribution CDROM and used the FDISK utility to make sure that the FreeBSD slice is flagged as "A=" but it did nothing. In the BIOS setting, I selected the slave drive, i.e. ad3, to be the first boot device, and the ad0 to be second. Still, I couldn't get to FreeBSD. > > It appears to me that I did not have the boot manager installed on the ad0. But when I tried to "install boot manager" onto the ad0, the fdisk gave me no hint where to write the MBR. Basically what I did was: > > select "install boot manager" > select "ad0" > hit the "q" key > select "install boot manager" > select "ad3" > hit the "q" key > > I know I must have done something wrong. But what did I do wrong? > > rain > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" +----------==/\/\==----------+ (__) FreeBSD | | \\\'',) The | Kernel ESCAFLOWNE | \/ \ ^ Power | Web http://unixdaemon.org | .\._/_) To +----------==\/\/==----------+ Serve [ We've switched the bath sponge with a tribble. ]