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Subject: Re: IDE/SCSI system, how to boot ?
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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Emmanuel Mogenet wrote:

> I have a system with both IDE and SCSI disks.
> I use the IDE disks for Win95/NT, and I would like to boot the FreeBSD
> I just installed from a floppy, the root filesystem being on the SCSI disk.
> 
> Is it feasible ?
> It looks like FreeBSD won't boot from anything but a MBR.

You need to install a boot manager of somesort.  You can modify NT's
bootloader to boot FreeBSD; see the FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org under
Documentation.

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