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From: jhenders@vanbc.wimsey.com (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager - How do I boot FreeBSD from drive D:
Date: 1 Dec 1995 18:38:10 -0800
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
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bmk@dtr.com (Brant Katkansky) writes:
>In article <30BD0481.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org>,
>Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>Do not use osbs as your boot manager - it cannot deal with the idea of
>>booting off a drive other than zero. Use the BTEASY boot manager that
>>comes as part of FreeBSD 2.0.5 and later.
>Sure it can, at least with the beta version.
I've got a system with 2 ide drives and a 1542 with 2 SCSI drives on it.
I'd like to install FreeBSD on one of the scsi drives, but the last time
I tried, I would have have to disable the ide drives and re-enable the
bios on my scsi card to get it to boot past the initial floppy
installation, which was complicated by the fact that I had all the files
to install FreeBSD from on the second dos ide disk. Does the install now
put in a boot manager that will allow me to tell the kernel to mount an
arbitrary drive as / on bootup?
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John Henders BOFH Wimsey Information Systems.
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