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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.xnet.com!news-admin From: sonntag@xnet.com (Jon Sonntag) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Basic installation question Date: 3 Oct 1996 03:35:48 GMT Organization: Jon's WARPed PC Lines: 49 Message-ID: <52vcak$f2@flood.xnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonntag.xnet.com X-Newsreader: NeoLogic News for OS/2 [version: 4.2] In message <52nkak$6d3@listserv.rice.edu> - cobbe@asia.cs.rice.edu (Richard Cobbe) writes: :>I have been told that the default kernel installed as part of the FreeBSD :>install must be on the first IDE device in order for the system to boot. :>Is this in fact correct? Does it necessarily need to be on the first :>partition of said device? Nope. I have it installed on a second drive (D:) on my system. However, I am using OS/2's Boot Manager. My current setup is: C: 500 Meg Windows 95 700 Meg HPFS Data D: 200 Meg OS/2 Warp 3.0 1 Gig FreeBSD 2.1.5 I did have to initially create a small DOS fat partition on D: between the end of the OS/2 partition and before the 1024 cylinder boundary leaving the rest free. The I formated the FAT partition, added it to the boot manager menu, and made sure I could boot from it. Then I loaded FreeBSD (from floppy), deleted the FAT partition I had just created, and then created a FreeBSD partition using all of the remaining disk space (1 Gig) for FreeBSD. This was done since OS/2's boot manager requires all bootable partitions to reside in the first 1024 cylinders, or it won't add them to it's menu. :> :>I currently have 2 HD's, both on the primary EIDE interface. The master is :>a 400M which has a single Win95 partition. Based on what I've been told :>about MS operating systems, it pretty much has to *stay* on the primary :>drive, or it won't boot. :> Not necessarily true. OS/2's boot manager will allow you to boot from a second hard disk. But after you do so, your drive letters are totally screwed up. The question is, if one does not have OS/2, can one find a boot manager that will boot from a second drive like Boot Manager? If not, you might persuade someone to sell you an old version of OS/2. I don't think the boot manager has changed in the last three releases... (Sorry, I threw out a perfectly good copy of OS/2 v2.1 last week.) Jon Sonntag PC Services Manager ANTEC - Rolling Meadows, IL sonntag@xnet.com