From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 8 13:59:06 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA25720 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:59:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA25712 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:59:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA03928; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:58:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:58:59 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Lee Smith cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot manager In-Reply-To: <32A8D1BB.2E3C@sover.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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