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Date:      Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:58:59 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Lee Smith <lee@sover.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot manager
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961208135811.3895D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32A8D1BB.2E3C@sover.net>

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On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Lee Smith wrote:

> I have a system with 3 hard drives. Drive C: and D: are Win95/DOS
> drives. I have partitioned the 3rd drive into a 100MB dos drive and a
> 415MB FreeBSD drive. FreeBSD installed just fine to the 415MB partition
> on the 3rd drive and all seemed fine. The only problem is when I reboot
> the system the boot manager only see's the boot partition on the C:
> drive. Why doesn't it see the boot partition on the FreeBSD drive. Fdisk
> see's it as an active non-dos partition. Is there another boot manager
> out there that will look at all my drives and tell which are bootable in
> different operating systems?

Booteasy and most BIOSes can't boot a third IDE disk.  You're stuck using
the boot floppy until you move it.

type at the Boot: prompt:

wd(2,a)/kernel

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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