Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:47:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Martino <chrismar@peanut.readington.com> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: tomdean@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2nd Hard Drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980703124650.3931A-100000@peanut.readington.com> In-Reply-To: <199807031721.MAA04154@horton.iaces.com>
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How about if I were to move the existing dangerously dedicated freebsd drive to the 2ndary master slot?? I have a feeling that FreeBSD would totally choke if I were to do that...=\ Chris -- Chris Martino chrismar@readington.com On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Chris Martino said: > > Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I currently have a 2.1gb IDE hd as my > > Primary Master. It is totally devoted to FreeBSD, and nothing else. As > > my Primary Slave I have my CD-ROM. I have a brand new 3.1 GB IDE drive > > sitting here that I'd like to put in my machine and use half of it for > > Win95, the other half I'd like to give to FreeBSD. I plan on making this > > new HD the secondary master. So, once again...my question is.. How can I > > add this HD and be able to dual boot to both FreeBSD and Win95. > > Well, what you need to do is install Win95 on the second disk, and then > install booteasy (or OSBS) on the primary master. Booteasy should give you > F5 for second disk. Then if you are going to boot off the FreeBSD slice > on the second disk (like for a different version), then you'll want > the boot manager on the second disk too. > > However, if you installed FreeBSD on the first disk, in dangerously > dedicated mode and not compatible with other OS's, then you are out of > luck. There is no place for the boot manager to go. > > The boot manager goes in the boot block of fdisk, ie the first 64 sectors > of the disk. So the answer to your next question is neither. > > > I guess another question I might have is....does the boot manager load > > from a dos partition or is that configured to load from FreeBSD...I don't > > quite understand how this would work. > > > > I did read the FAQ, Handbook as well as check out the mail > > archives....nothing in either spot seems to be what I'm looking for. > > > > TIA, > > Chris > > > > -- > > > > Chris Martino > > chrismar@readington.com > > > > On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Thomas Dean wrote: > > > > > This question is well documented in the handbook and the FAQ. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > -- > All opinions expressed are my own. If you don't like them there > is no one to blame but yourself. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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