From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 29 0:35:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bne003m.webcentral.com.au (horizon3.webcentral.com.au [202.139.235.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D528837B696 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:35:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 16930 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2000 08:35:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO timberwolf) (203.147.165.122) by horizon3.webcentral.com.au with SMTP; 29 Mar 2000 08:35:24 -0000 Message-ID: <004d01bf995a$a1e97040$7aa593cb@timberwolf> From: "Haikal Saadh" To: "Yong Lim" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Booting from second harddisk. Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:41:51 +1000 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 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yup.. tried that... OSBS-beta doesn't seem to be quite able to boot my second harddisk. The default boot manager trashes by active partition. I've found a temporory workaround by installing the default bootmanager, and the writeprotecting the boot records under bios. Not elegant, but it works... ----- Original Message ----- From: Yong Lim To: Haikal Saadh ; Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 12:57 AM Subject: RE: Booting from second harddisk. > Did you install the Boot Manager onto both the primary (hard drive with > windows?) and the second hard drive? You need to do that if you did not. > > Yong > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Haikal Saadh > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:48 AM > To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Booting from second harddisk. > > > Hiya.. I just installed 4.0-R onto my second IDE harddisk (dedicated > entirely to FreeBSD!), but I can't seem to be able to boot it. > > The FreeBSD Boot manager has > "F5: Disk 1" > in addition to my windows and other fbsd partition, but that option does not > work. > OSBS doesn't seem to be able to handle two harddisks... > > Any ideas? > > > Join the ProcessTree Network: For-pay Internet distributed processing. > http://www.ProcessTree.com/?sponsor=5934 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message