From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 07:04:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA22669 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 07:04:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from diamond.xtalwind.net (diamond.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA22650 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 07:04:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (slipper8a.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.65]) by diamond.xtalwind.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id KAA05972; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:03:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:03:53 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: Paul DuBois cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Commander 3.0 and FreeBSD 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: <199611220612.AAA06997@night.primate.wisc.edu> 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, 22 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? Not that I know of. In both cases I just installed the boot manager first then installed FreeBSD where I wanted 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. I'd be inclined to point the finger at System Commander. > Something I have to specify at the boot: prompt maybe, I don't. > or some /etc/fstab magic? This is what works for me, I'd say it is pretty mundane. /dev/wd1s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd2a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd2s1f /usr ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd2s1e /var ufs rw 1 1 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/wd0s6 /e: msdos rw 0 0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------