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From: sstorkel@devious.com (Scott Storkel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: NEWBIE: Booting from 2nd IDE drive?
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 10:32:08 -0800
Organization: Devious Software & Consulting
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Message-ID: <sstorkel-0504961032080001@sstorkel.vip.best.com>
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I'm new to the world of FreeBSD and was wondering if somebody could help me
setup a multi-boot system. I've installed Windows 95, Windows NT, and FreeBSD.
My system has two drives connected to the primary IDE controller. The first
drive is dedicated to Win95 and the second drive is split between FreeBSD
and NTFS. FreeBSD occupies the "first" partition on the second drive and NTFS
is the "second" partition.
My lack of knowledge currently forces me to boot from the installation
diskette and type "wd(1,a)" at the boot prompt so that it doesn't try to
boot from the floppy, CD-ROM, or whatever it's hard-wired to do (NOTE:
this doesn't seem to be strictly correct, the boot program does complain
about "wd(1,a)", but it does get the job done).
Now, what I'd like to do is either:
1. Create a boot floppy that boots directly to the FreeBSD installation
on the second drive, without any intervention for me.
or
2. Be able to select a FreeBSD using the OS loader than came with
Windows NT. It seems like this might require use of fbsdboot.exe,
but I haven't figured out how to make it work yet.
Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance!
-- Scott
P.S. Maybe this is one for the FAQ?
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