Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:05:15 +0100 (CET) From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: BSD on a secondary disk Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401252204590.6856-100000@poirot.grange>
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Hello Sure, the question has been answered a number of times - but I _did_ search on the web and _did_ looked in the handbook, and other places... So, the question is the following: I installed FreeBSD on a disk in one system, where it, probably, was at that time the slave, but I am not sure anymore. Then I moved it to another system as a slave. This system is somewhat funny. It's an old Compaq... I've got a SCSI disk with Linux in it and the disk in question. So, it's the only ATA disk in the system, but the only way to use both - a SCSI and an IDE disks in this PC is to connect the ATA disk as a slave, then it boots from SCSI. So, the question now is - how to boot BSD in this situation? I think, BIOS cannot boot directly from the slave. I tried configuring LILO with other=/dev/hdb1 table=/dev/hdb loader=/boot/chain.b label=BSD but it didn't work. So, am I right, that it's a BIOS limitation and the only way to boot BSD too in this system is to create one more small BSD-slice on the Linux disk, put there some first boot-stages of BSD and point it to /dev/ad1... How exactly do I do it? Can BSD use a 3Mb-big slice for this (I can free my former /boot partition on da0)? Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski
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