Date: Fri, 16 May 97 10:57:18 -0400 From: Doug Shapter <dshapter@apexgrp.com> To: un_x@anchorage.net Cc: dshapter@terminus.apexgrp.com, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation is going fine... Message-ID: <H00001b700943957@MHS> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970516060442.24875C-100000@aak.anchorage.net>
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> On Fri, 16 May 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > Doug Shapter wrote: > > > > > > wd0 1G FAT (contains MBR) > > > wd1 2.1G NTFS > > > wd2 2.1G freebsd. > > > > > > the OSes currently installed: > > > on wd0: Windows 95. > > > on wd1: Windows NT 4.0 > > > on wd2: freebsd. > > > > hmmm....boot easy only handles two hard drives as far as i know. > > you would need to install a FreeBSD slice (dos partition) on > > one of the first two drives. place the root filesystem on that > > FreeBSD slice. /etc/fstab will then mount filesystems from the > > thrid drive without problems. > > > > > i checked out the source for booteasy a few years ago, > and i'm pretty sure it was written to manage 4 ... > i just remember being surprised that i was not > limited to two. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > That certainly could be the case...more likely, my ignorance. In any case, a solution was making the NT40 disk the slave on the secondary IDE bus and editing boot.ini to point to that device. Now all three OSes are bootable (well, not quite. now I have to figure out why I can't mount root. Thanks. dps
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