Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:05:45 -0500 From: Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net> To: "'Chuck Robey'" <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: What I consider and odd install Message-ID: <01BC9141.56250620.Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>
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On Sunday, July 13, 1997 11:42 PM, Chuck Robey [SMTP:chuckr@glue.umd.edu] wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Al Johnson wrote: > > > Now to the problem. I've a GW2K Pentrium Pro 180 that I want to use for > > compiles of any package. It's got a 3.8GB EIDE Disk and CDROM. I've also > > got an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI with a 1GB fixed disk, 8G tape unit, 135Syquest > > (ya I know), and 1G Jaz drive. I want FreeBSD on the Jaz drive since I > > won't be using it all the time (The machine runs mostly Win95...uggg) > > > > No matter what I do I can't get the FreeBSD boot manager to give me the > > option of booting from the JAZ drive. I've gone thru and made sure it's > > BIOS recognized. The order displayed at boot time is: C:3.8GB EIDE D:1GB > > Seagate, 82h JAZ, 83h EZ135. > > > > Any suggestions as to a solution or pointers to where I can get more info > > would be greatly appreciated. I'm really interested in seeing just how > > well FreeBSD run when it's allowed to open up an a PPro 180 with 64MB of > > memory as opposed to my 486/66 with 16MB. > > Al, on the Jaz drive, is either the FreeBSD partition marked as the active > one (via fdisk) or is bteasy installed on the Jaz drive? On your original > boot disk, bteasy requires _one_ of those two or it will refuse to > transfer control. > I've got the boot manager installed on the jaz drive but for some reason, apparently booteasy only supports 2 drives, I never get the chance to select the jaz for booting. I think this is a case where two many drives is complicating the issue. I've even gone so far as to disable the primary EIDE interface (3.8G). Booteasy still discovers the disk. I select Disk2 and it wants to boot from the CDROM. still no jaz drive in the picture. Looks like I may have to partition my 3.8G disk to boot FreeBSD. Hmm, maybe just go out and buy another EIDE drive for the primary controller and all will be well.
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