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From: ckyuan@nnrp.usc.edu (Chen-Kow Yuan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: booting FreeBSD fron slave hardisk
Date: 10 Sep 1996 17:08:59 GMT
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Dong Lin (lind@gaia.csus.edu) ´£¨ì:
: 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.

There is a program "fbsdboot" in the FreeBSD CDROM.
It is a DOS program which can load FreeBSD into memory just like 
"linload" in Linux.
It should be able to load FreeBSD from slave harddisk.
Does anyone know how to use it to specify the kernel on slave disk?

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Chen-Kow Yuan   Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
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