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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