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From: stephen@inisant (Stephen Worthington)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installation with OS/2
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Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 00:57:57 +0100
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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?

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