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Date:      Mon, 14 Jul 1997 00:42:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>
Cc:        "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: What I consider and odd install
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970714003945.256N-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <01BC8FDE.4DE20120.Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>

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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Al Johnson wrote:

> Now to the problem.  I've a GW2K Pentrium Pro 180 that I want to use for 
> compiles of any package.  It's got a 3.8GB EIDE Disk and CDROM.  I've also 
> got an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI with a 1GB fixed disk, 8G tape unit, 135Syquest 
> (ya I know), and 1G Jaz drive.  I want FreeBSD on the Jaz drive since I 
> won't be using it all the time (The machine runs mostly Win95...uggg)
> 
> No matter what I do I can't get the FreeBSD boot manager to give me the 
> option of booting from the JAZ drive.  I've gone thru and made sure it's 
> BIOS recognized.  The order displayed at boot time is: C:3.8GB EIDE D:1GB 
> Seagate, 82h JAZ, 83h EZ135.
> 
> Any suggestions as to a solution or pointers to where I can get more info 
> would be greatly appreciated.  I'm really interested in seeing just how 
> well FreeBSD run when it's allowed to open up an a PPro 180 with 64MB of 
> memory as opposed to my 486/66 with 16MB.

Al, on the Jaz drive, is either the FreeBSD partition marked as the active
one (via fdisk) or is bteasy installed on the Jaz drive?  On your original
boot disk, bteasy requires _one_ of those two or it will refuse to
transfer control.

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