Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 04:58:15 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo), hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install to second hard-drive... Message-ID: <5770.856702695@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Feb 1997 12:04:52 GMT." <199702231204.MAA14310@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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> > As Joerg Wunsch wrote: > > > I don't know whether booteasy can handle more than one drive. I > > remember somebody saying that os-bs is better in this respect. > > > osbs20b8 works with more than one drive, and is pretty (it gives you > a nice menu), but not with some BIOSs - specifically any laptops I've > tried (but then, you won't have two disks, so os-bs, the previous version, > will suffice). Well, my own experience with 2.1.7 and the following configuration: Generic 486 blah blah 2 IDE HDs 1 AHA 1542 w/HD + CDROM DOS is on 1st HD, FreeBSD on 2nd and 3rd HDs (all 3 of which DOS can see when doing a "full" DOS install with its defaults). When the 2.1.7 system initially comes up off the HD (install goes great, without a hitch) you get BOOTEASY with the following prompt: F? DOS And that's it. No other choices! First time I tried selecting just the first drive for a boot manager. No joy. Then I reinstalled and said "boot manager" for every drive. No change. Then I tried installing BOOTEASY by hand by running bootinst.exe with boot.bin. No difference. Then I installed OSBS20BETA and lo-and-behold it saw the 2nd drive and its FreeBSD partition, allowing me to add it to the boot menu. I rebooted and now I could get to the FreeBSD boot blocks, typing in: 1:wd(1,a)/kernel for a successful boot into FreeBSD. So just one bit of first-hand testimony that booteasy may not quite be a 100% solution. :-( Jordan
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