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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: booting FreeBSD fron slave hardisk Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 18:46:14 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <323708F6.1587@www.play-hookey.com> References: <513ak3$rl3@usc.edu> <3235CAEA.3769@www.play-hookey.com> <515ebr$5ah@usc.edu> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Chen-Kow Yuan wrote: > > Ken Bigelow (kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com) ´£¨ì: > : Chen-Kow Yuan wrote: > : > I install my FreeBSD on my secondary harddisk (slave disk). > : > How can I boot the FreeBSD? > : You have to install the Boot Manager on *both* drives. > > Which boot manager do you suggest? > I tried OSBS, but it cannot be installed on second disk. > I have received a correction on this. FreeBSD's Boot Manager will handle both drives happily, provided it is mounted on your Drive C: (It has to be installed there, because the BIOS will only boot from drives A: and C:). Just select the FBSD Boot Manager option when the installation is starting to define your drive configuration. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |