Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:31:39 -0000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "S. Nickels" <snickels@u.washington.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multi-OS setup.... Message-ID: <00fd01bf02dd$fb4fc440$827e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <Pine.A41.4.10.9909181349360.51708-100000@dante41.u.washington.edu>
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I've handled this situation two different ways
(1) make one hard drive the primary master & other one the secondary master,
then disable in BIOS the one I don't want to boot
(2) put one hard drive in one of those generic $25 removable hard drive
cradles
and use the switch to turn the drive on / off
> As your webpage said, I'm not exactly sure where to post this question, so
> here it is for you guys. :)
> I've been running Linux for a while but have recently moved to FreeBSD.
> I also run a number of applications in Windows. On my Linux
> setup, I had a 4GB drive running Linux, and a 2GB drive running Windows.
> However, the setup I used was a little bizarre; when I installed Windows
> on the second drive, I had connected that drive as the primary and only
> drive, so Windows wouldn't start doing anything weird with the other
> drive. So, both drives ended up having boot sectors.
> In Linux, all I had to do was point Lilo to the other drive, and the
> other drive's boot sector would take care of the rest. But I can't seem to
> get that to work under BSD. (BSD now occupies the space that Linux did;
> Windows is still where it was) Through the /stand/sysinstall routine, I've
> tried every combination of setting the Windows drive bootable or not, and
> creating a new master boot record, or not creating a master boot record,
> and every time I go to reboot, if I choose the windows drive, the system
> just hangs. I can boot into windows if I hook up the windows drive as
> primary, but right now that's the only way.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> --Steve Nickels
>
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> Stephen Nickels
> snickels@u.washington.edu
> http://students.washington.edu/snickels
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