Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:23:44 -0800 From: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> To: A.Flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New installation - some points and a problem Message-ID: <36A38A40.28547212@seattleu.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901171429080.21423-100000@a5.ph.gla.ac.uk>
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> If I boot from the installation diskette, and at the prompt, try to > boot the hard-disk kernel by specifying 1:wd(2,a)kernel (am I right in > thinking this should be possible, or not?) it gets some way into the > startup, then just after it's found the two hard disks on wdc0, and > noted the absence of wdc1, I see this: You want 1:wd(1,a)kernel in order to boot. wd0 is your 100MB dos disk, wd1 is your 408MB FreeBSD disk, and wd2 would be on wdc1 (which you don't have/have configured.) In regards to the boot setup you need to install the boot manager on both wd0 and wd1. You'll have to visit the partition editor and set the proper slices bootable in order to use the boot manager. Or, you could use os-bs to do boot selection. With multiple disks you'll have to use the beta version, but it does offer timeout and automatic default options so is more powerful (and easier to install) than the plain boot manager. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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