Date: 11 Feb 98 13:40:19 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Linux/Chos (or other boot loader) Message-ID: <05d_9802112121@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210200307.29893v-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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At 11 Feb 98 05:03:20 Doug White wrote regarding Re: FreeBSD/Linux/Chos (or other boot loader) >> help i've a four Ide disk system and wish to install freebsd on the >> primary slave (adbout 1gig) and retain the individual linux and >> windoze (games) disks and boot into each as i want. any ideas? DW> Unless you use a fancy bootmanager, you can only boot from the DW> first two. I believe you can boot any disk from the install-floppy. If you can make a kernel which specifyes the root on the primary slave, then put it on the dos-partition, and run fbsdboot from dos. It can be a tricky thing to bootstrap; I moved my 4.th scsi to a working fbsd-machine, installed it, and moved it back. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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