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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!ddsw1!godot.cc.duq.edu!hudson.lm.com!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.ridgecrest.ca.us!owens!gspiegel From: gspiegel@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us (Greg Spiegelberg) Subject: Re: Boot from 2nd Drive? Message-ID: <Cz6MIK.822@ridgecrest.ca.us> Sender: usenet@ridgecrest.ca.us (Ridgenet Usenet admin) Organization: Science Applications International Corporation References: <396grg$92@case.cyberspace.com> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 01:23:08 GMT Lines: 21 In article <396grg$92@case.cyberspace.com>, Robert Mobbs <monk@cyberspace.com> wrote: >Hi, I am abandoning Linux for FreeBSD, but I am having a small problem. >The drive I want to install BSD on, a Maxtor 7546, is only configurable >as a second drive. It will not work as a primary drive, no matter how >I try. My primary drive is DOS-devoted, and I do not want to change that >setup, since the Maxtor is twice the size of the DOS disk, and much >better for UNIX apps. > >My problem: I cannot make FreeBSD recognize the second HD after I copy >the kernel. The fdisk which comes with DOS will not let me toggle the >DOS disk off active, nor toggle the BSD disk as active. The fdisk with >BSD is the same. Thus, after I copy the kernel, I can only boot from >the DOS primary HD, and never see my BSD setup work. > >Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how to fix this? Try disabling the 1st drive in your CMOS. Put a small & bootable BSD partition on your first drive and use the os boot select program.