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From: andrsn@Hoover.Stanford.EDU (Annelise Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on second drive
Date: 2 May 1996 04:20:22 GMT
Organization: The Hoover Institution
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Message-ID: <4m9d66$c1e@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
References: <jm040795-3004961607080001@mencju.apple.com>
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In article <jm040795-3004961607080001@mencju.apple.com>, jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) writes:
>Hi,
> I have an Adaptec 2940 with 2x2gig drives. I wish to install FreeBSD on
>the second drive. Is this possible, or does FreeBSD unable to boot from a
>primary partition on the second drive?
>
> thanx,
> Joaquin
I have installed FreeBSD on a second SCSI hard drive twice. The
trick is to get a bootmanager on the *first* drive that will either
include the partitions on the second drive (OS/2's) or will pass
control to a second boot manager on the second drive. This second
can, I think, be done with BootEasy, possibly also (and perhaps
better) with FreeBSD's other boot manager, which I haven't used.
Annelise
Annelise Anderson
andrsn@hoover.stanford.edu