From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 01:05:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA13684 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:05:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13665 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 08:05:33 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA07332; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:05:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Tell BootEasy Where to Go! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I just got a new 2940UW and a Seagate Hawk. WooHoo! > > I did a minimum dedicated disk install on the new SCSI disk. I left my > old IDE disc untouched. The newfs is in place. > > Windows is still on the IDE drive. Win boots when I hit f1. FreeBSD > boots from the IDE when I hit f2. > > I was unable to get my system to boot from the SCSI by typing any > permutation of number:sd(0,a)kernel at the boot: prompt. > > I want BootEasy to boot FreeBSD from my new sd0. I don't want to boot > FreeBSD from my old IDE any more. I want boot Win95 from the old IDE > just like it does now. > > How do I tell BootEasy where to go? Yuck. This is hard. Having a combo IDE/SCSI system and trying to boot from both throws BIOSes for a loop. You probably need a more intelligent boot manager, like OS-BS or the one that comes with PartitionMagic. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message