Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:27:57 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: tanvir@mail.org, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install problems with Jaz Message-ID: <19980108182757.16076.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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If you plan on running more than one OS on your machine you will have to eventually install a boot manager. Otherwise, you'll have to instruct your system to boot off the Jaz drive and not the hard drive in your PC. Rudy ---Tanvir Hassan <tanvir@mail.org> wrote: > > I installed freebsd onto a Jaz disk and things seemed to work with the > aha2940 drivers. There was an initial complaint about an inability to > get geometry info from the jaz disk but it seemed to guess the right > values and the install went all the way through with tons of disk access > without errors. > > But, now I have a stupid question. I didn't want the freebsd to > overwrite my MBR, so how do I boot this disk? I tried to use my initial > boot disk to point it to the scsi disk but it never seems to find it! > Is that geometry problem coming back to haunt me? > > My Linux has this neat utility where I copy a kernel image to a dos > partition and I can run a Win95 program to boot using that image. Is > there an equivalent utility for FreeBSD? It is VERY frustrating to > spend all that time installing stuff and have a full disk but NO WAY to > boot it! :-) > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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