From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 12 6:27:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D82F14D18 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 06:27:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 23689 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Aug 1999 13:27:43 -0000 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:27:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber To: Matt Meola Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Having both SCSI and IDE hard disks... In-Reply-To: <6136.934463387@ima2wk6.uswc.uswest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Matt Meola wrote: [snip] > I've tried: > o A 4G partition for Ebola95, with th rest for FreeBSD; > o Dangerously dedicated FreeBSD on the whole EIDE drive; > o FreeBSD consuming all of wd0, but not "dangerously dedicated". > > In each case, booteasy simply won't allow me to boot FreeBSD from wd0. > I've got an Award BIOS, which allows me to boot from the SCSI drive > first; a real life-saver. If I do that, then I get an "F5 drive 2" > prompt, along with the normal "F1 Dos" and "F2 FreeBSD" prompts. > > With dangerously dedicated mode, if I hit F5, I'll get "F1 FreeBSD" and > "F5 drive 1"; F1 does nothing (actually, the menu comes up again). > > With an MBR on wd0, booteasy just beeps at me when I try to boot > FreeBSD from that drive. Have you tried using osbsbeta.exe from the tools directory on disk one? Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message