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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!jeffb From: jeffb@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jeff Bartig) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: booting 386bsd from 2nd hard disk Date: 17 May 1993 18:14:59 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 30 Message-ID: <1t8kn3INNkav@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4 I have been running 386bsd in a very small partition on my IDE hard disk. I just purchased a 1542C and a SCSI hard disk. I would like to install 386bsd on my new, fast hard disk and leave the old IDE drive for DOS. Is it possible to install 386bsd completely on the second drive (the SCSI one)? I've seen some messages that talk about removing the IDE drive while installing. Once everything is installed and the IDE drive is back in place, how do I boot 386bsd from the second drive? OS-BS (old version) doesn't recognize the 2nd drive. I also have OS/2's Boot Manager which allows me to boot OS/2 from the 2nd drive, but I could never get it to work with 386bsd when it was on my IDE drive. Will it work when I have 386bsd on the SCSI drive? Am I just looking for trouble by wanting 386bsd all on the 2nd drive? Should I just create a root partition on the IDE and put the rest on the SCSI? I've looked through the FAQ list, but I didn't see any answers explaining how to boot from a 2nd drive. Jeff -- Jeff Bartig, Dept Programmer | Office: (608) 262-5631 UW-Madison Psychology Dept | Fax: (608) 262-4029 1202 W. Johnson St, Rm B29 | Madison, WI 53706-1611 | E-Mail: jeffb@merlin.psych.wisc.edu