Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:05:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Tell BootEasy Where to Go! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419010450.6766l-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418220247.159A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I just got a new 2940UW and a Seagate Hawk. WooHoo! > > I did a minimum dedicated disk install on the new SCSI disk. I left my > old IDE disc untouched. The newfs is in place. > > Windows is still on the IDE drive. Win boots when I hit f1. FreeBSD > boots from the IDE when I hit f2. > > I was unable to get my system to boot from the SCSI by typing any > permutation of number:sd(0,a)kernel at the boot: prompt. > > I want BootEasy to boot FreeBSD from my new sd0. I don't want to boot > FreeBSD from my old IDE any more. I want boot Win95 from the old IDE > just like it does now. > > How do I tell BootEasy where to go? Yuck. This is hard. Having a combo IDE/SCSI system and trying to boot from both throws BIOSes for a loop. You probably need a more intelligent boot manager, like OS-BS or the one that comes with PartitionMagic. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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