Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:21:19 EDT From: Nataraj Dasgupta <xbsd@hotmail.com> To: Kevin_Rooney@sw.cc.va.us, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: different boot manager problem Message-ID: <19990630002120.1713.qmail@hotmail.com>
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>From: Kevin Rooney <Kevin_Rooney@sw.cc.va.us> >To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> >Subject: different boot manager problem >Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:01:09 -0400 > >Greetings, > I'm working on a little side project and am experimenting with a >486/66 with two IDE HDs on seperate IDE controller channels. Small >drive is wd0 and is on the primary channel along with a CD-Rom. This >drive has Win95 on it. Large drive is wd2 and is on the secondary >channel by itself. This drive has 3.2-RELEASE on it. I've installed >booteasy on both drives, but no matter how I do it the boot manager >doesn't see the second drive. I just get 'F1... DOS' and the prompt. >Is this because of the space (wd1) in between the drives and should I >just put both HDs on the same IDE channel and the CD on the secondary so >the large HD shows up second instead of third? I'm going to try this >when I get home tonight, but I thought I'd see what kinda info I get >here first. Thanks! > Interesting. Hmmmmm . When you installed BSD, what did you get during the phase of install where it asks you about preparing the BSD partitions ? Did it indicate that wd0 was a dos partition ? Perhaps you could run boot with a -c option and check this. that might help. Best of Luck, >~Kevin Rooney >~Instructional Technologist >~Southwest Virginia Community College >~P.O. Box SVCC, Richlands, VA 24641 >~Kevin_Rooney@sw.cc.va.us >~(540)964-7552 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Nataraj Dasgupta Philip Morris Incorporated, Network Operations Monitor/Analyst, World intranet HQ, Rye Brook, NY. Email : ndasgupt@bridgeport.edu _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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