From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 19:00:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D19A16A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:00:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web51102.mail.yahoo.com (web51102.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF0F843D46 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:00:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from raincip@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 84848 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Nov 2004 19:00:46 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=SOvkYOD5nQZe4DubUzX8iEI35izAYPjS+k9UDEwg6NMhq8ZsxC8YQDE7g0I6yPyiMszdxcOGX68e3278k/4/LMMAXGpckV/zXKNxbPKz8QzR8LXwjUse9YUPWC4ydrHmUIyjtd3mdK63cYPY99YOdEjCZdz8DTu8UhaHAeA4NDU= ; Message-ID: <20041128190045.84846.qmail@web51102.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.177.237.27] by web51102.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:00:45 PST Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:00:45 -0800 (PST) From: rain cip To: Joshua Lokken In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:00:47 -0000 Thanks, Joshua. This appears to be the easiest way to add multiple OSs. I installed gag and added another Linux OS parition in no time. Great tool! rain Joshua Lokken wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:26:38 -0800 (PST), rain cip wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and ad3. My hardware configuration is such: > > ad0 -- primary IDE, master (all for Win2k) > ad3 -- secondary IDE, slave (all for FreeBSD 5.3) > > > > > I know I must have done something wrong. But what did I do wrong? I'm not sure. I know that I use a tool called GAG to boot mutliple OSes from assorted locations, and it has always worked very well for me. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! – What will yours do?