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From: Charlie Root <root@gilbertr.npt.nuwc.navy.mil>
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>I did notice one strange message when I was trying to use the
>boot manager to switch to the second hard drive and boot.
>After picking F5 for other drive and entering "hd(1,a)/kernel)"
>at the "Boot:" prompt, I noticed that it gave a status
>message of "Booting wd(0,a)/kernel @ 0x100000".  Now, I
>plead guilty to newbiedom, but if I entered "hd(1,a)/kernel",
>shouldn't it say it's booting from wd(1,a), not wd(0,a)?

>Thanks for any help -- I'm looking forward to trying out
>FreeBSD.

>Frank
>fod@netcom.com

You must actually enter "wd(1,a)/kernel" if the drive is IDE.
Glad to help out a fellow newbie.  

Bob Gilbert     GILBERTR@wpn.npt.nuwc.navy.mil
and sometimes   root@gilbertr.npt.nuwc.navy.mil