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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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