From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 15:52:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5296F16A401 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:52:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zkolic@sbb.co.yu) Received: from smtp1.sbb.co.yu (smtp1.sbb.co.yu [82.117.194.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20E513C478 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:52:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zkolic@sbb.co.yu) Received: from faust.net (cable-89-216-167-189.dynamic.sbb.co.yu [89.216.167.189]) by smtp1.sbb.co.yu (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l12FoeJw017043 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:50:40 +0100 Received: by faust.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9F4FF1CC36; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:50:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:50:32 +0100 From: Zoran Kolic To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070202155032.GA1074@faust.net> References: <20070202120056.486F416A4FB@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070202120056.486F416A4FB@hub.freebsd.org> X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.3.2 X-SBB-Virus-Status: clean X-SBB-Spam-Score: 3.4 X-SBB-Spam-Level: XXXXXXX Subject: Re: usb hard disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:52:23 -0000 > 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