From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 20 17:55:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA25655 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:55:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA25643; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:55:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA26294 ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:55:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA21669; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:55:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:55:04 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo To: hackers@freebsd.org cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Install to second hard-drive... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi guys. I have a friend who's trying to install FreeBSD to the Master IDE hard-drive on the Secondary controller. The install sees the harddrive just fine, and copies all the CDROM files to the drive - but after everything is done, there's no way to boot freebsd, since the install only touched the 2'nd disk (1st=win95,2nd=CDROM,3rd=freebsd). There's no tips in the FAQ or handbook for installing on a drive other than the 1st BIOS disk... just curious how I should place the boot manager in the first drive so I can boot to freeBSD (without nuking win95). Also, is there a way to use the boot floppy to boot from any drive? On my system, I was able to boot from the floppy, and type: 1:sd(0,a)kernel and it booted fine.. just doesn't seem to work with his wd drive though. I tried several combinations, and all I get is nothing, or an error. Bummer. I've tried installing both the Boot Easy and Standard bootmanagers to the second drive. Just can't get it to boot!! TIA, -Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. -- Arthur Schopenhauer