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From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com>
To: "Thomas S. Traylor" <ttraylor@titan.cs.mci.com>
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Subject: Re: Can one dual boot fbsd?  No?  (was Re: wd0/sd0 can't bo
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> Date:          Wed, 28 May 1997 09:30:15 -0600 (MDT)
> From:          "Thomas S. Traylor" <ttraylor@titan.cs.mci.com>
> To:            chaos@tgci.com
> Subject:       Re: Can one dual boot fbsd?  No?  (was Re: wd0/sd0 can't boot from s

> On Tue, 27 May 1997, Riley J. McIntire wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Have you installed booteasy on both disk?  If you do I most certain
> that this will work for you.  I'm currently dual booting Win95 and
> FreeBSD. Both on different disks, both are SCSI disks.
> 
> Tom
> 

Yes--doesn't work.  I'm sure it would with win95 on the first disk, 
but that's not the configuration.  I'm thinking it's the way fbsd 
handles loading the kernel, but I'd like some confirmation from a 
guru...

Thanks again,

Riley





> > 
> > 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> --
> Thomas Traylor
> Thomas.Traylor@mci.com
> ttraylor@titan.cs.mci.com
> (719) 535-1269
> 
> 
> 
>