Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:42:27 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install to second hard-drive... Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970222184225.00c02e70@dimaga.com>
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At 12:43 PM 2/22/97 +0100, J Wunsch wrote: >As Mark Mayo wrote: > >> There's no tips in the FAQ or handbook for installing on a drive other >> than the 1st BIOS disk... just curious how I should place the boot manager >> in the first drive so I can boot to freeBSD (without nuking win95). > >You need to install the boot manager on the first drive (required), >and maybe on the FreeBSD drive, too (optional, you can get away with a >standard bootstrap there, or even with `dangerously dedicated' mode, >but you won't get a menu then allowing you to toggle back and forth >through the drives). > >I don't know whether booteasy can handle more than one drive. I >remember somebody saying that os-bs is better in this respect. BootEasy handles it beautifully - the least work setting it up I've ever seen. Doesn't look as nice as some others, but work nicely. >> Also, is there a way to use the boot floppy to boot from any drive? On my >> system, I was able to boot from the floppy, and type: >> 1:sd(0,a)kernel >> >> and it booted fine.. just doesn't seem to work with his wd drive though. I > >1:wd(2,a)kernel > >It's the second BIOS drive (#1 aka D:), but FreeBSD takes it as wd2 >since it doesn't auto-assign the unit numbers in the wd driver, but >rather hard-codes them into the possible device slots. ... which forced me to change the kernel (add a -1 somewhere) to be able to get the correct root device - is there something obvious I was missing? Changing root in the config didn't work. (I haven't looked at the problem for half a year+ - the system works, so no sweat) Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org
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