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Date:      Tue, 12 Dec 1995 18:21:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
Cc:        David Kirchner <dpk@eskimo.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot problems (was Re: Western Digital boot failures )
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951212181858.206C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9512121704.AA15266@gnu.mc.xerox.com>

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On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Marty Leisner wrote:

> > As a note, booteasy will not start FreeBSD off the second disk without 
> > some reprogramming.  You can use OS-BS or any other boot manager if you 
> > need to boot off the second disk.  (I use OS/2's Boot Manager and it 
> > works great.)
> > 
> >
> Hmmm..this hasppened to me (what I do is boot of a slice on the first
> disk, and mount a much larger slice from the second disk...
> 
> But I'd like to do aware with the first disk slice...

Then you will need to use another boot manager other than booteasy, or 
fix booteasy.

> What reprogramming is necessary for booteasy to start from the second 
> disk?  Also fbsdboot doesn't like booting from the second disk...

You have to rewrite it so that it will boot the second disk properly.  I 
don't know the procedure on this.

> What is OS-BS?

It's a boot manager that can let you boot multiple partitions.  A smarter 
version of booteasy.  :-)

It's available in the dos/tools directory in the distribution (i think).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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