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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing BSD
Date: 7 Jan 1997 00:07:50 GMT
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"Robert Soen" <rsoen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> I installed freeBSD, fine but i think it puts the loader on the second
> drive, because my computer starts up with windows.

You need to tell it to put the boot selector on both drives.  Your
BIOS boots only the first drive, so the BSD bootstrap on the second
drive will never be reached.

> And my last question, how to tell BSD I have a ide cdrom on my second
> controller?

It is supposed to detect it there itself.  If it doesn't, you need a
CD-ROM drive that's more ATAPI-compliant, or might try to see whether
upgrading to FreeBSD 2.2(-BETA by now) would fix your troubles.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)