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From: Dong Lin <lind@gaia.csus.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: booting FreeBSD fron slave hardisk
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:12:10 -0700
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
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Chen-Kow Yuan wrote:
> 
> I install my FreeBSD on my secondary harddisk (slave disk).
> How can I boot the FreeBSD?
> 
> --
> 
I am having the same problem.  It seems it is impossible for FreeBSD to
boot from the second hard drive.  Also, how can I install the FreeBSD
boot loader to its own partition?  Is there anyway I can specify where
to install the bootloader like LILO for linux? Thanks.

-Dong