From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 26 15:19:56 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA15930 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:19:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA15924 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:19:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA00280; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:19:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:19:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Bruce Bergstrom cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation question In-Reply-To: <32B4D560.69A0@qnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Bruce Bergstrom wrote: > I am running a system with 4 IDE drives. 3 are used for WIN95 and the > 4th I wanted to use for FreeBSD. > The problem I'm encountering is when I have finished installing the > binaries and DOCs from a DOS partition, I am not given the choice to > boot to either WIN95 or FreeBSD. It goes straight into 95. During the > installation, I'm given the option of which drives to choose from. I > have been choosing wd3. Should I also choose wd0 so it can write to the > MBR? If so, what are the steps? I have looked through the MAN files but > I guess I'm to dense to find anything that helps me with this particular > problem. Your 3rd and 4th disks are out of the reach of your BIOS. Either move your FreeBSD disk up to the slave position on your primary controller or use a boot floppy and type wd(3,a)/kernel to boot. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major