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From: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Olaf Erb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: sd2/2 FreeBSD installation problem
Date: 24 Sep 1996 06:27:44 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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In article <3244C4A3.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>Mr.Andrew Micheals wrote:
>> to pull floppy and to key enter then reboots. Present system software
>> on this machine is dos and windows using all space except aprox 2nd
>> half of 3rd physical hard drive, this space is 1036 mb's and in bsd's
>> fdisk editor shows the correct 1023 cyl's with no aparent problems
>
>You cannot boot from the 3rd drive, only one of the first two.  FreeBSD
>cannot be installed in this fashion, and you will either have to find
>some space on one of the first two drives or just dedicate a different
>machine to FreeBSD and leave your windows system alone.

I did a similar install on sd2. After completion of install I mounted
the disk with a fixit floppy, built a custom kernel with root/swap on sd2,
(after chrooting to the mounted disk), et voila'. 

I just cp'd the kernel to a dos partition and used fbsdboot.exe to boot 
this kernel.
The hardware was three SCSI disks on a aha1542b that can't boot from sd2.

Olaf
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