Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:23:15 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> To: Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After Install -- Where is FreeBSD? -- Follow-up Message-ID: <42B806B3.7060604@gamersimpact.com> In-Reply-To: <000f01c575bc$0c4ad760$6401a8c0@dell1> References: <000f01c575bc$0c4ad760$6401a8c0@dell1>
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Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > Just for the record, I have two primary HD. Windows is installed on the > first (ad0) and FreeBSD on the second (ad1). > A few things... 1) Welcome to FreeBSD, don't get too discouraged over these issues, everyone had/s them the first time they move to an opensource os. The rewards from perseverance will be great. 2) What happened is FreeBSD installed the Master Boot Record (MBR) on ad1. The MBR is responsible for holding the CPUs hand so it can begin booting the OS. It also holds the partition table. When your computer boots the first thing that executes is the BIOS. When that is finished it loads the first sector, the MBR, of the first BIOS boot device to a very specific memory location and begins executing it. In your case the first boot device is your WinXP drive. You need to change the boot device to the second harddrive, change your harddrive order, or write an MBR to the first disk that will handle booting from multiple disks. 3) This mailing list isn't the preferred place for these sorts of questions. In the FreeBSD world current@freebsd.org is the mailing list for issues pertaining to the FREEBSD-CURRENT CVS branch. This boils down to the head of the development branch where all new code and patches are applied. It also means that FREEBSD-CURRENT can, will and does break often but the skill set of those running it is such that they can deal with it. A more appropriate list for these questions would be questions@freebsd.org. As a newcomer to the OS I would highly recommend you subscribe to the questions@ mailing list because reading other people's questions will greatly add to your experience and might answer a question you had but hadn't asked yet. 4) I'd highly recommend you familiarize yourself with the FreeBSD website, the developers have done a fantastic job and there is an enormous amount of information on it. I'd make the FreeBSD handbook your best friend as it will answer a ton of questions for you. Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Mailing Lists: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL FreeBSD Newbies page: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html Have fun! -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com
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