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From: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with two hard drives
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:57:47 -0500
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Customer Support wrote:
> 
> 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?
Get OSBS and use that as your boot manager.
Ron
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