Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:27:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> To: Matt Meola <mmeola@uswest.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Having both SCSI and IDE hard disks... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908120926240.23673-100000@paprika.michvhf.com> In-Reply-To: <6136.934463387@ima2wk6.uswc.uswest.com>
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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.
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