Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:26:38 -0800 (PST) From: rain cip <raincip@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk Message-ID: <20041126042638.91826.qmail@web51108.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and ad3. My hardware configuration is such: ad0 -- primary IDE, master (all for Win2k) ad3 -- secondary IDE, slave (all for FreeBSD 5.3) No more device on the primary IDE while a CD drive acts as the master on the secondary IDE. I used the entire space on ad3 for a FreeBSD 5.3 release installation while the ad0 contains my old Win 2k. The problem now is that I can't boot FreeBSD at all even though I had selected "install boot manager" during the installation. The PC went straight to Win2k every time I booted. I tried to reboot from the distribution CDROM and used the FDISK utility to make sure that the FreeBSD slice is flagged as "A=" but it did nothing. In the BIOS setting, I selected the slave drive, i.e. ad3, to be the first boot device, and the ad0 to be second. Still, I couldn't get to FreeBSD. It appears to me that I did not have the boot manager installed on the ad0. But when I tried to "install boot manager" onto the ad0, the fdisk gave me no hint where to write the MBR. Basically what I did was: select "install boot manager" select "ad0" hit the "q" key select "install boot manager" select "ad3" hit the "q" key I know I must have done something wrong. But what did I do wrong? rain --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
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