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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: "Paul A. Sakievich" <sakman@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with two hard drives Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 10:08:15 -0500 Organization: CSC Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32EB735F.46E5@worldnet.att.net> References: <32EA5951.14C5@pgmstr.com> <32EAE731.2447@worldnet.att.net> <32EB55F2.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.146.222.59 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02E (Win95; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34537 Ron Bolin wrote: > > Your root partition of FreeBSD must reside _within_ the first 1024 cylinders of your > > first drive (that is, the entire / partition must end within about 500MB of your > > drive). At least, with most BIOSes this is true. > > > > A way around this is to use a boot floppy to load FreeBSD. > > > > - Paul > Say I am running WinNT on disk 1 and FBSD current on disk 2. Both disks > are SCSI. > I do not have anything but OSBS and WinNT installed on disk 1. So unless > there is > something different about IDE drives, it should work for you. > Ron > -- I could be wrong. I based my partitioning scheme on the FreeBSD installation manual and experience with other OSes. I don't think it's drive dependant (SCSI or IDE), but dependant on the BIOS. I know OS/2 can be loaded on any partition and drive and be bootable. I know that Linux can not (at least with my drives and BIOS). If this is not true, then I've been mislead for quite a while... (wouldn't be the first time). - Paul