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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot off drive > 0? Date: 24 Mar 1996 23:43:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4j4mml$5tu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <e68c4pq00.fsf@justine.elastica.com> <315284C5.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <1996Mar22.213139.16026@combdyn.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 lawrence@combdyn.com (Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen) writes: > I wasn't given the option to install a boot manager, when I tried it. My > system hung trying to boot with the root filesystem on ID2. > > Does it only apply if I select to remain compatible? Yes. This is to prevent you from shooting in your foot (though it might be overly eager in your case). Basically, the ``dangerously dedicated'' case was intended for people who don't care for anything else than BSD, but also don't understand why they have to bother about all this geometry crap around when handling PeeCees with their short-sighted BIOS. ``dangerously dedicated'' means that the BSD slice start right off sector 0, thus effectively not leaving *any* space for any other master boot record there. However, in your case, the boot selector must go onto the first disk only. You should be able to manually install it there from DOS. booteasy is just a regular DOS package and has no relation to FreeBSD other than we ship it to you as a convenience. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)