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#! rnews 2056 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix.gen.nz!inisant.actrix.gen.nz!stephen From: stephen@inisant (Stephen Worthington) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation with OS/2 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2ff88405.494e4953414e54@inisant.actrix.gen.nz> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 00:57:57 +0100 References: <1995Jul2.174404.19158@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> Organization: Digi-Tech Communications Limited, Wellington, New Zealand X-Newsreader: TRN 1.97 w/UUPC (beta) for OS/2 X-Posting-Software: UUPC/extended 1.12k inews ( 8Dec94 22:58) Lines: 25 In article <1995Jul2.174404.19158@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>, Yeo Howe Chien <yeohc91@evans.ee.adfa.oz.au> wrote: >I have a system that has two drives; first drive which has both dos and >OS/2 Warp and the second drive which I intend to install FreeBSD 2.0 on >it. The problem is that I can't install it because of the boot manager >located in the first drive which was setup by OS/2. Can anyone help me >out please? Thank you. Bootmanager can boot FreeBSD 2.0 on my work PC (one drive only). I did the recommended install except I did not install the FreeBSD bootmanager beastie. The I booted OS/2 via Bootmanager, ran FDISK and used it to tell Bootmanager about the FreeBSD partition. Rebooted and selected the FreeBSD partition from the bootmanager menu and FreeBSD was off and running. I think I remember reading in the docs somewhere that FreeBSD 2.0 is not set up to boot automatically from a second drive (you have to manually tell it which kernel to run from the Boot: prompt), unless you hack the kernel source. Maybe this has been fixed in 2.0.5? -- Stephen Worthington Telephone: +64-4-569-6764 (home) Digi-Tech Communications Ltd +64-4-389-8909 (work) New Zealand Fax: +64-4-389-9901 (work) stephen@inisant.actrix.gen.nz (home) stephen@digitech.co.nz (work)