Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:19:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Bruce Bergstrom <bruceb@qnet.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation question Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961226151823.248C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32B4D560.69A0@qnet.com>
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Bruce Bergstrom wrote: > I am running a system with 4 IDE drives. 3 are used for WIN95 and the > 4th I wanted to use for FreeBSD. > The problem I'm encountering is when I have finished installing the > binaries and DOCs from a DOS partition, I am not given the choice to > boot to either WIN95 or FreeBSD. It goes straight into 95. During the > installation, I'm given the option of which drives to choose from. I > have been choosing wd3. Should I also choose wd0 so it can write to the > MBR? If so, what are the steps? I have looked through the MAN files but > I guess I'm to dense to find anything that helps me with this particular > problem. Your 3rd and 4th disks are out of the reach of your BIOS. Either move your FreeBSD disk up to the slave position on your primary controller or use a boot floppy and type wd(3,a)/kernel to boot. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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