Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:41:51 +1000 From: "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> To: "Yong Lim" <yong@csfi.com> Cc: <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Booting from second harddisk. Message-ID: <004d01bf995a$a1e97040$7aa593cb@timberwolf> References: <NDBBLNEEEKNNPEMEDDDKGEKFCEAA.yong@csfi.com>
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Yup.. tried that... OSBS-beta doesn't seem to be quite able to boot my second harddisk. The default boot manager trashes by active partition. I've found a temporory workaround by installing the default bootmanager, and the writeprotecting the boot records under bios. Not elegant, but it works... ----- Original Message ----- From: Yong Lim <yong@csfi.com> To: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>; <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 12:57 AM Subject: RE: Booting from second harddisk. > Did you install the Boot Manager onto both the primary (hard drive with > windows?) and the second hard drive? You need to do that if you did not. > > Yong > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Haikal Saadh > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:48 AM > To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Booting from second harddisk. > > > Hiya.. I just installed 4.0-R onto my second IDE harddisk (dedicated > entirely to FreeBSD!), but I can't seem to be able to boot it. > > The FreeBSD Boot manager has > "F5: Disk 1" > in addition to my windows and other fbsd partition, but that option does not > work. > OSBS doesn't seem to be able to handle two harddisks... > > Any ideas? > > > Join the ProcessTree Network: For-pay Internet distributed processing. > http://www.ProcessTree.com/?sponsor=5934 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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