From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 13 19:02:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA04755 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 19:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aries.bb.cc.wa.us ([208.8.136.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA04746 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 19:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by aries.bb.cc.wa.us (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA28545; Tue, 13 May 1997 18:56:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 18:56:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Coleman To: wujie@ciet.cn.net cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make the system boot selectable? In-Reply-To: <33790CD7.B43@ciet.cn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 May 1997 wujie@ciet.cn.net wrote: > I have a IBM PC 350 P100 machine, it originally has only 1 hard disk. I > add the second one myself. I want my BSD runs first when boot up, so I > install the Windows 95 on the second one. But then I find this IBM PC > can't boot from the slave hard disk. It can only naturally boot from the > master disk! > > I saw the Easy Boot*Mgr option during the install procedure. Should I > install it on both hard disks to enable selectable boot? If you install it on both hard disks it would allow you to multi-boot different OS's on EACH disk. You probably only want to install it on the Master disk, and install a standard MBR on the FBSD disk if it isn;t your Master disk. If FBSD is your Master disk, leave the Windows95 dist untouched. I have had win95 and FBSD dual booting, but it has been a long time ago. Does this > option affects the Windows 95 system boot area? U know, M$ is always not > so stable. At this time, everytime I want to start the 95 to do some > word processing, I have to switch the master and slave IDE line. > > Thanks in advance! >