From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 15:34:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from [209.49.190.34] (fireout.mbakercorp.com [209.49.190.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F22637B40D for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:34:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from admin_4.mbakercorp.com by [209.49.190.34] via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 15 Oct 2001 22:34:16 UT Received: from gatedom-Message_Server by mbakercorp.com with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:34:22 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.4.1 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:33:58 -0400 From: "Joseph Wright" To: Subject: Booting FreeBSD from disks Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have freebsd 4.4 installed on my second hd and win2000 on my first(primar= y) hd. What I want is to be able stick a disk in the machine and boot = freebsd but if there is not a disk in it will boot win2000. I have both os's installed and it boots to win2000 but what do i type at = the ok: prompt to boot from the second slice of the second hard drive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message