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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to boot from the 2nd DOS partiiton Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 16:10:09 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 34 Message-ID: <332C8BE1.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <MPG.d8be887662112859896a8@news.erols.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA i386) To: Patrick Steranka <steranka@steranka.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37239 Patrick Steranka wrote: > The install went without a hitch. I chose NOT to install the boot > manager (maybe that is were I went wrong). I found two problems: Well, yes. If you'd read the installation docs, you'd have seen where it said "if you want to boot off the 2nd drive, you MUST install a boot manager etc and so forth." But, of course, nobody reads the documentation - I might as well write it in Urdu for all the attention it gets, and people would much rather simply make stupid mistakes than read the docs. :-) Anyway, yes, you should have installed a boot manager. To continue with your floppy experience: > (2) When I boot from the FreeBSD floppy, I wasn't able to tell the > bootstrap loader to boot from (/dev/wd0s2a). I tried: > wd(2,a)kernel > wd(2,a)/kernel > wd(0,a)kernel > 1:wd(0,a)kernel It seems strange that you didn't also try wd(1,a)/kernel, just to make the test complete if nothing else. :-) > I haven't fully RTFM'ed (but I have looked some :-)), so please > forgive me if this is a straight forward question/answer. I forgive you. If you hadn't been so honest about it, this reply probably would not have even been sent - I try to generally avoid the obvious cases of failure to RTFM. :) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.