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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!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!news.prd.nomura.co.uk!news-server From: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: need help booting freebsd Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 11:54:09 +0000 Organization: Metronome Solutions Ltd. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <32E35CE1.2196@metrosol.demon.co.uk> References: <5buij9$m5k@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.201.66.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34298 Stu Pomerantz wrote: > > Hello All: > > I installed freebsd on the second physical ide hard disk in my machine. I also > have an IDE cdrom. The first hard disk has DOS/NT on it. I'd like to be able > to boot freebsd from the boot floppy, or ideally, with a DOS program like > loadlin ( which will boot linux from DOS ). > > How do I do this? I can't seem to figure out the device name of my second ide > hard disk. And, given this info, how do I tell the boot disk to boot off that > drive. Something like wd(1,a)/kernel should work I think. Steve