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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!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mindspring.com!usenet 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 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 32 Message-ID: <32ED5D1B.167EB0E7@mindspring.com> References: <32EA5951.14C5@pgmstr.com> <32EC22F1.61A5@concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-25-139.dialup.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 28 Jan 1997 01:57:49 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34580 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 -- **************************************************************************** Ron Bolin rlb@mindspring.com, http://www.mindspring.com/~rlb/ GSU: gs01rlb@panther.gsu.edu matrlbx@indigo4.cs.gsu.edu Home: 770-992-8877 ****************************************************************************