From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 19 3:38:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EE11525A for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 03:38:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12215; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:02:15 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "oracle" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdc12213; Sun Sep 19 21:02:09 1999 Message-ID: <00fd01bf02dd$fb4fc440$827e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "S. Nickels" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Multi-OS setup.... Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:31:39 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've handled this situation two different ways (1) make one hard drive the primary master & other one the secondary master, then disable in BIOS the one I don't want to boot (2) put one hard drive in one of those generic $25 removable hard drive cradles and use the switch to turn the drive on / off > As your webpage said, I'm not exactly sure where to post this question, so > here it is for you guys. :) > I've been running Linux for a while but have recently moved to FreeBSD. > I also run a number of applications in Windows. On my Linux > setup, I had a 4GB drive running Linux, and a 2GB drive running Windows. > However, the setup I used was a little bizarre; when I installed Windows > on the second drive, I had connected that drive as the primary and only > drive, so Windows wouldn't start doing anything weird with the other > drive. So, both drives ended up having boot sectors. > In Linux, all I had to do was point Lilo to the other drive, and the > other drive's boot sector would take care of the rest. But I can't seem to > get that to work under BSD. (BSD now occupies the space that Linux did; > Windows is still where it was) Through the /stand/sysinstall routine, I've > tried every combination of setting the Windows drive bootable or not, and > creating a new master boot record, or not creating a master boot record, > and every time I go to reboot, if I choose the windows drive, the system > just hangs. I can boot into windows if I hook up the windows drive as > primary, but right now that's the only way. > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance! > --Steve Nickels > > --------------------------------------- > Stephen Nickels > snickels@u.washington.edu > http://students.washington.edu/snickels > --------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message