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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
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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.
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Gabor Egressy : gabor@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
gabor@quickweb.com