From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 18:11:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225E516A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:11:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.arax.md (mail.arax.md [217.26.160.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85BEC43D39 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:11:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cezar@arax.md) Received: from qvirtual (helo=mail.arax.md) by mail.arax.md with local-smtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CjiIC-000EMB-SI for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:11:28 +0200 Received: from cezar.arax.md ([217.26.161.51] helo=cezar) by mail.arax.md with smtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CjiIC-000EM6-GF for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:11:28 +0200 Message-ID: <000701c4edd2$5615c980$33a11ad9@office.arax.md> From: "Cezar Fistik" To: References: <842a160c0412290925a3582ae@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:15:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Subject: Re: freebsd on 2nd drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:11:30 -0000 Hi ice, Yes you certainly can do as you planned, although I'm not sure if GAG works when run from a floppy. I have the same situation as you described, winxp on first drive and freebsd on the second, but in my case gag is installed on the first drive and I select which OS to boot from there. So if you are sure that you will be able to choose which drive to boot from when GAG is run from the floppy, go ahead. Regards, Cezar ----- Original Message ----- From: "ice" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:25 PM Subject: freebsd on 2nd drive? > I'm planning on installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 on the second hard drive in > this computer. I've read over the installation guide and don't see > anything useful about the bootloader being on the non-first drive. My > question is: can I install the FreeBSD bootloader on the second hard > drive and use something like GAG on a floppy to boot it? > > ice