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From: h5h1@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Markus Meister)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD: can't boot from SCSI disk! HELP!!
Date: 2 Sep 1994 12:25:24 -0700
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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With help, I have managed to install the first two disks of FreeBSD onto
a SCSI drive I bought because I ran out of room one my 2 IDE hard drives.
Until now, I've been using DOS on my 1st IDE and FreeBSD on my 2nd IDE drive.
Now I want to use FreeBSD on the SCSI driver and DOS an both IDE drives.
Until now, I've been using some utility whose name I can't remember to choose
beteween DOS and FreeBSD, ie. choose between booting either IDE drive. It
turns out that I can't use the same program to boot the SCSI driver, however.
I have downloaded os-bs135.exe but when I run it to install it, it only lists
my primary DOS partition. It doesn't show the 2nd IDE drive or the SCSI
drive.
What I want to do is boot the SCSI drive, copy everything over from my 2nd
IDE drive (except etc/{f,disk}tab) and in the future boot the SCSI drive
and finally purge the 2nd IDE drive and initialize it for DOS.
But for now I'm out of luck since I can't boot the SCSI drive.
If someone has a solution to this dilemma, I'd be indeed grateful. I've
already bothered my share of people with my SCSI problems, so if I get it
to work smoothly, it would be a ... relief, to say the least.
- Markus (yes.. it's me *AGAIN*. I am sorry. sigh.)