Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 21:00:14 +0000 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can one dual boot fbsd? No? (was Re: wd0/sd0 can't boot from s Message-ID: <199705280432.VAA08213@train.tgci.com>
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Hmmm...maybe I'm not clear. I would like to know if one can dual boot two versions of fbsd residing on two disks: One an ide and one a scsi? Cheers, Riley > Just installed 2.2.2-release on the only scsi drive in my > system--disabled the ide controller in cmos from previous experience. > > Anyway, install goes ok, boots ok. Enabled the ide drive, which has > 2.1.7 on it. Gets the boot prompt F1 -DOS, F2-2.1.7 and F5 2nd DISK. > > Press F5 and get "F?". I've seen this before, and done the fixes > recommended by assuming this is a geometry problem. It doesn't seem > to be. > > Used booteasy 2 beta (8?). No help. > > When F2 is pressed (ide drive 2.1.7) at the boot prompt I type in > sd(0,a)/kernel and it boots wd(0,a)/kernel with no errors. That is > it *seems* to take the arguement "sd(0,a)" but runs wd(0,a) and it > ends up running 2.1.7, not 2.2.2-R. > > This isn't a show stopper, but I'm curious and I'd *really* like to boot the > scsi disk with the ide disk in the system. Is there a reason I can't? > > os-bs (osbs20b8.exe) locks up when run on the dos partition on the > ide disk. Booteasy seems to configure ok, but craps out under > pressure! :) > > tia, > > Riley > >
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