From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 17:34:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (r8.bfm.org [216.127.220.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7974C37B479; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id TAA00246; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:33:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adam) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:33:02 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: erich alfred heine Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing to secondary hdd Message-ID: <20001026193302.A230@whizkidtech.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from eheine@students.uiuc.edu on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:00:26PM -0500 Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Castle: http://www.redprince.net/ X-Special-Effects: http://www.FilmSFX.com/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:00:26PM -0500, erich alfred heine wrote: >Also, when it comes time to get rid of linux on my primary disk and make >it into free space, can I just switch the secondary disk to the primary >disk, and vice versa, since the secondary disk's MBR has the freebsd >loader on it? or would I need to change anything (besides the jumpers on >the hard drives and the cables). While I don't know anything about lilo, I can answer this second question of yours: You do not have to change anything in your hardware setup. I use the FreeBSD loader. I have FreeBSD on the secondary disk, Windows on the primary disk. I have the FreeBSD loader on both disks. When I need Windows, I press F1 and it loads Windows from the primary disk. When I need FreeBSD, I press F5 (go to the secondary disk). At the prompt from the loader on the secondary disk, I then press F2 to boot FreeBSD. Works like charm! Cheers, Adam -- Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I'm repeating myself... -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message