Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:45:27 -0500 From: Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Operating System Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030515104500.01875320@mail.servplex.com> In-Reply-To: <20030515154044.GA33924@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030515095813.017cbd88@mail.servplex.com> <000c01c31af2$11a15760$24cade42@ab.hsia.telus.net> <5.2.0.9.2.20030515095813.017cbd88@mail.servplex.com>
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I didn't know about the F5 key... That's interesting news... Learned something new today... Thanks Peter At 10:40 AM 5/15/2003 -0500, you wrote: >On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:00:06AM -0500, Peter Elsner wrote: > > uhm... boot managers are for when you have multiple operating systems on a > > SINGLE hard drive... > > > > Not for switching physically between 2 hard drives.... > >Why not? F5 in the boot manager FreeBSD uses toggles to the next drive. >At least FreeBSD tolerates being booted off something other than the C: >0x80 drive. > >The BIOS boots the boot manager on the first drive whose prior default >boot was F5 so after 5 or 10 seconds it hands off to the boot manager on >the 2nd drive. And eventually you boot. > >I happen to have NT4 and FreeBSD 4.8 on the same drive at the moment but >that has not always been the case. > >I suspect the original questioner somehow missed installing the boot >manager on the primary drive and only installed on the secondardy. > >-- >David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net >===================================================================== >The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its >capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone (425) 988-8061 - eFax I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?" -- Mike Godwin Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. System Administration - It's a dirty job, but somebody said I had to do it. If you receive something that says 'Send this to everyone you know, pretend you don't know me. Standard $500/message proofreading fee applies for UCE.
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