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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!not-for-mail From: dim@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (D. Gerasimatos) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Need boot manager to install on 2nd SCSI? Date: 22 Jul 1996 12:09:03 -0700 Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4t0jkf$esm@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu My PC has three SCSI disks attached to it using an Adaptec 2940. One of them boots Win 95, another boots Win NT, and the third is completely unused. I want to install FreeBSD 2.1 on it. Ideally, I'd like to use the Adaptec BIOS to set my boot device rather than use a boot manager like bteasy or NT Loader. I installed FreeBSD on sd1a (the empty disk -- 2nd in the chain) and all went well. However, when it was booting into FreeBSD it then wanted to change root to sd0a. I don't understand why if it was already booting off of sd1a (and the Adaptec BIOS told it to do so). When I went back to Win 95 (on the first disk), I found that that partition (the one 95 is on) was set inactive and I had to make it active again. When installing FreeBSD I explicitly told it to leave other devices alone. What am I doing wrong here? Do I _have_ to use a boot manager of sort sort to pull this off, or can I just change the boot device's ID in the Adaptec BIOS? Thanks a lot! Dimitrios