From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 12 22:03:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA17950 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 22:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pom-vms2.pomona.edu (pom-vms2.pomona.edu [134.173.64.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA17941 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 22:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from POMONA.EDU by POMONA.EDU (PMDF V5.0-7 #12356) id <01I87C9HNKAO8WW9ZA@POMONA.EDU> for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 22:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 22:02:53 -0700 (PDT) From: JOHN Subject: FreeBSD on IDE AND SCSI drives.. To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01I87C9HNO2A8WW9ZA@POMONA.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"questions@freebsd.org" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm hoping someone can help me with this: I'm installing 2.1.0-RELEASE on two drives, one being a SeaGate EIDE (1033MB) and the other being a Quantum Fireball (1042MB) SCSI on an AHA2940 SCSI card. I would LIKE to keep the most used filesystems on the SCSI disk, taking advantage of the speed - the desired partitioning scheme would be something like this: wd0 sd0 /tmp / /var /usr /home/ftp /usr/local extra space /usr/X11R6 /home swap Since the kernel will be on sd0, I'm hoping that FreeBSD's boot manager will properly boot to the kernel if it is installed on the master drive, which as I understand it has to be wd0. Does the PC-BIOS limitation of booting beyond a ceratin number of sectors apply in this case? Or can I put the root partition on sd0, and the boot manager on wd0, as I had hoped? And if I can do that, then do I partition sd0 with true partition entries and no boot manager? Thanks jts