From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 22:11:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA26990 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 22:11:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from night.primate.wisc.edu (night.primate.wisc.edu [144.92.43.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA26980 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 22:11:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dubois@localhost) by night.primate.wisc.edu (8.8.2/8.8.2) id AAA06997; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:12:41 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199611220612.AAA06997@night.primate.wisc.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:12:40 -0600 From: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) To: jack@diamond.xtalwind.net (jack) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Commander 3.0 and FreeBSD 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: ; from jack on Nov 21, 1996 23:39:34 -0500 References: <199611220100.TAA22388@night.primate.wisc.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.47 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk jack writes: > On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Paul DuBois wrote: > > > I don't think you can boot FreeBSD off the second IDE drive. I tried > > installing on a second drive, too, but I couldn't ever get it to boot > > correctly. > > Yes, you can boot FreeBSD off the second IDE drive. I did it for several > months with OS/2's boot manager on a box that had DOS, OS/2, and Lose95 on > the first IDE and FreeBSD on the second. > > You can also boot FreeBSD off a third IDE drive. I'm doing it on this box > with osbsbeta.exe from the /tools dir. Any special trick to it? When I installed FreeBSD on a second IDE drive, System Commander recognized that there was a system there, but when I told it to boot from it, the system just hung. Something I have to specify at the boot: prompt maybe, or some /etc/fstab magic? -- Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu Home page: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/dubois Software: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software