Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 22:23:37 CST From: Jarratt "2IC" Davis <jazz@hal9000.net.au> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Help! About BSD on 1 drive, DOS on another. Message-ID: <199603271253.WAA15775@hal9000.net.au>
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Hi, I am after some advice about a problem I am having installing FreeBSD onto my machine (I have installed FreeBSD many times in the past, but I now have 2 Harddrives instead of 1) - I would normally post this in News, but our news server is down semi-permanently. I have a mainly PCI system, with a (new) IDE HD as drive 1 (for MS-DOS) (Yeah I do need it :)), and a SCSI HD as drive 2 (for BSD). Now, I can install BSD onto the IDE(1) from the SCSI(2)(As DOS). - Installing a boot manager - allows me to boot into FreeBSD fine (drive 1), but when I try to boot into DOS (drive 2) - I get the message "operating system not found" - yet I can still access that HD through BSS's mount_msdos, and if I use a DOS boot disk, I can boot into the 2nd drive (SCSI). To install BSD onto drive 2(SCSI), and using drive 1(IDE) for DOS,I had to use Floppies, because when I tried to install from the IDE to SCSI, it wasnt able to find the required files (even though I had them in the correct directories). It looks to me like some sort of conflict between BSD and me trying to use 2 non-similar HD's (ie. IDE and SCSI). Or even more likely (you will have to tell me as I dont know - Im just guessing) - DOS doesnt like booting off of a drive other than the first one, and BSD is the same? I cant afford another SCSI which is the reason for the IDE for DOS. I have checked and there is no fault with the HD's themselves... Thankyou for any help/insight you may provide - I have spent 4 days on this, trying to install BSD in every combination I can think of, read all the documents I could find - including the FAQ... Thanks again for any help. Jazz -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > JAZZ@HAL9000.NET.AU Assistant Sys-op < > About HAL: < > HAL9000 is a commercial Internet Site that provides net access at < > very competitive rates. E-mail support@hal9000.net.au for any < > information. < >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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