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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Dave Schneider wrote:
> 
> >         I was wondering if you could solve a problem for me. I'm trying to
> > install FreeBSD on my p5 133Mhz. I have two hard drives installed on
> > different IDE ports, rather than both on one with one master and the other
> > one slave. I would like to set up DOS on one and UNIX on the other using
> > the boot manager to choose. After I install UNIX on the 2nd disk, with DOS
> > on the first, it boots DOS without asking about UNIX. When I Have it set
> > up the other way around, with UNIX as the 1st disk and DOS as the 2nd the
> > boot manager comes up but does not have a selection for DOS and both
> > choices go to UNIX. What do I need to do?
> 
> Install Booteasy on the first disk.  FreeBSD's sysinstall is a bit stupid
> when it comes to doing the Right Thing when installing Booteasy -- if you
> install on the second disk, that's where it goes.
> 
> Follow these simple instructions:
> 
> 1.  copy bootinst.exe and boot.bin off the CDROM or ftp site from /tools
> to your hard disk
> 2.  run bootinst
> 3.  Reboot and use.
> 
> Hope this helps.

This probably will not be enough. You'll need to write the line:
1:wd(2,a)/kernel

at the boot prompt to get it to boot. Once you do that, edit your kernel
configuration file and change the config line to read:
config kernel root on wd2

rebuild the kernel, install it, and be happy!

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