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#! rnews 1841 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ais.net!cdc2.cdc.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!news-master!news From: Customer Support <tljones@concentric.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with two hard drives Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 22:37:21 -0500 Organization: Concentric Network Corp. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <32EC22F1.61A5@concentric.net> References: <32EA5951.14C5@pgmstr.com> Reply-To: tljones@concentric.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.155.185.105 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0C-GZone (Win95; I) CC: tljones@concentric.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34567 Artin Safari wrote: > > I have two hard drives. I would like to dedicate the first one to > Windows95 and the second to FreeBSD. I've gone through a few > installations but I can't seem to be able to boot BSD. After the > installation procedure is completed, I reboot, choose FreeBSD from the > boot manager. The booting process begins but at the end I get a message > indicating that root could not be mounted. > > When installing I specified FreeBSD to be installed on the second hard > drive and the boot manager on the first one. > > Help me. What can I do? > > Artin I too have two scsi hard drives. My first drive is for windows95 and the second drive is for FreeBSD. I've gone through the installations and everything seems to install correctly but when I reboot after the installation I do not even get the boot manager, it goes directly into Windows95. What did I do wrong during the installation. Is the bootmanager to go onto my drive with windows95? Can anyone help me?