Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:50:32 +0100 From: Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.co.yu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb hard disk Message-ID: <20070202155032.GA1074@faust.net> In-Reply-To: <20070202120056.486F416A4FB@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20070202120056.486F416A4FB@hub.freebsd.org>
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> A new, replacement disk drive is now installed, and is
> FreeBSD only. It has the standard FBSD boot loader.
> When I power on the laptop, I get the ususal F1/F2/F3
> and F5 prompts (three partitions on the internal disk plus
> the USB/Firewire disk).
Hm! Looks like boot manager. I have simple loader, with options
to boot this and that via numbers, in frame.
> It is not clear if I can boot windoze, as it should have
> a SCSI driver available to it (although who is to say, given
> the "customized" laptop installations these days), but it
> does not boot, despite my telling GRUB to map ad0 to sd0
> and map sd0 to ad0, which *should* put the windoze drive on
> the first disk, at least as far as windoze knows. This is
> repeated in several sites I have searched, but none of them
> are using the FBSD bootloader initially, so that may be
> confusing things. I suppose I could install the GRUB boot
> loader in the ports, but I am going to "correct" the windoze
> issue with qemu.
Wow! You have little people living inside your computer!
My case is simple. I have existing freebsd on internal drive.
I just need linux on usb hdd and want it to be up using bios.
When comes to that, I will bravely install on external disk and
put linux loader to the first 512 of that drive. Hope it is the
right way to stay untainted.
Zoran
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