Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:12:40 -0600 From: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) To: jack@diamond.xtalwind.net (jack) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Commander 3.0 and FreeBSD 2.1.5 Message-ID: <199611220612.AAA06997@night.primate.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.FBS.3.95.961121232717.729A-100000@localhost>; from jack on Nov 21, 1996 23:39:34 -0500 References: <199611220100.TAA22388@night.primate.wisc.edu> <Pine.FBS.3.95.961121232717.729A-100000@localhost>
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jack writes: > On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Paul DuBois wrote: > > > I don't think you can boot FreeBSD off the second IDE drive. I tried > > installing on a second drive, too, but I couldn't ever get it to boot > > correctly. > > Yes, you can boot FreeBSD off the second IDE drive. I did it for several > months with OS/2's boot manager on a box that had DOS, OS/2, and Lose95 on > the first IDE and FreeBSD on the second. > > You can also boot FreeBSD off a third IDE drive. I'm doing it on this box > with osbsbeta.exe from the /tools dir. Any special trick to it? When I installed FreeBSD on a second IDE drive, System Commander recognized that there was a system there, but when I told it to boot from it, the system just hung. Something I have to specify at the boot: prompt maybe, or some /etc/fstab magic? -- Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu Home page: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/dubois Software: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software
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