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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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!dolphin.neosoft.com!nobody From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot manager Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 17:59:54 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <q91oe5.ss5.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> References: <5ekeim$t4g@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 To: gegressy@uoguelph.ca (Gabor Egressy) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35926 In article <5ekeim$t4g@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>, gegressy@uoguelph.ca (Gabor Egressy) writes: > Hi > > I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. Here > is my problem. I have two harddrives, both IDE. The first one is a > 1.7G partitioned into four roughly equal size partitions and has win95 > on it. The second one is a 500M and I installed FreeBSD on it. FreeBSD > occupise the entire disk. Unfortunately I cannot boot into it with the > boot floppy after installation. When installing it FreeBSD recognized > it as wd2(winchester disk 2). I tried to boot from the floppy when I > got the boot: prompt with boot : wd(2,a)/kernel. Your two IDE drives should be wd0 and wd1, not wd1 and wd2. Have you tried wd(1,a)/kernel? -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads