From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 01:45:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA09499 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 01:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.128]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA09483 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 01:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA00937; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 01:45:13 -0700 Message-Id: <199606150845.BAA00937@gdi.uoregon.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: gdi.uoregon.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: "Tom Smith" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about boot manager In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jun 1996 20:20:38 -0000." <199606140023.UAA18514@lance.castle.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 01:45:13 -0700 From: Doug White Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -------- > Now, I know the boot manager would > have to go on DISK1, but I can't seem to find a stright answer about > whether the boot manager will like this. It would need to boot DISK1 > and DISK2 (2 OS's). The reason I'm wondering is because I've heard > of problems with large hard disks. I seem to be in a sort of unique > situation in that I'm not installing the OS to the large hard disk, > but the boot manager has to go there. My question is if the boot > manager will work right. It would need to boot Win95 on the large > disk (the whole disk) and FreeBSD on the small disk. Any ideas? This is similar to my situation. Install the boot manager on the FIRST disk; booteasy will pick up the second disk automatically. I personally use OS/2's Boot Manager, and give good marks to OS-BS over Booteasy. Matter of preference. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major