From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 17:10:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA19236 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:10:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA19230 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:10:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA02624; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:40:09 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601020110.LAA02624@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Boot Loader when both IDE and SCSI present. How to Install? To: akyol@wireless.stanford.edu (Bora Akyol) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:40:09 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <30E4AF60.41C67EA6@wireless.stanford.edu> from "Bora Akyol" at Dec 29, 95 07:17:52 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Bora Akyol stands accused of saying: > Now I have two IDE drives (one on each controller) and a SCSI > drive and FreeBSD is on my SCSI drive. When I installed FreeBSD > I chose to install the boot manager but that did not work apparently. > Can someone please tell me how to make this boot loader work. > I can now boot FreeBSD via the floppy but that is kind of awkward and > requires me to be very alert. By the way I type hd(2,a)/kernel > at the install floppy boot prompt. I'd guess that you're going to have a very hard time with this combination, depending on what your BIOS does with the second IDE disk. Traditional PC-AT BIOSes will only boot from the first two disks. You may be able to get somewhere using the fbsdboot program and a kernel on a DOS partition. > Bora -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[