Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:16:34 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: "Jay O'Brien" <jayobrien@att.net> Cc: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help with boot0 Message-ID: <20041113151634.GA73692@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <419578AC.30702@att.net> References: <419578AC.30702@att.net>
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 06:59:56PM -0800, Jay O'Brien typed: > I have two identical hard drives on the same IDE controller; > The file systems are identical. I can move the "Master" jumper > from one HD to the other and the computer will boot on the > HD with the jumper. It becomes ad0 and the other HD is ad1. > > I have installed boot0cfg on both drives with the -B option. > > Booting with either drive gives me a F1 (FreeBSD) option and a > F5 (Disk1) option. F1 boots the drive set up with the hardware > jumper to be the IDE controller master. F5 gives another > selection, F1 (FreeBSD) and F5 (Disk2). F1 boots on the IDE > master, and F5 won't boot. There's no need for boot0 on the second drive. Better put a default mbr on it like so: boot0cfg -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad1 Ruben
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