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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!torn!news.rns.net!flint.sentex.net!vinyl.quickweb.com!gabor From: gabor@vinyl.quickweb.com (Gabor Egressy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot manager Date: 23 Feb 1997 13:47:13 GMT Organization: Sentex Communications Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5ephp1$213@flint.sentex.net> References: <5ekeim$t4g@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> <q91oe5.ss5.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vinyl.quickweb.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35954 Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote: : 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? Yes I have. The kernel, when I am installing FreeBSD using the boot.flp image on a floppy reports my second drive as wd2. I ahve a CD-ROM as a primary slave. The 500M is my secondary master. -- Gabor Egressy : gabor@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca gabor@quickweb.com