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From: tomchang@Glue.umd.edu (Tommy Y M Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can you install FreeBSD on a second hard drive?
Date: 25 Jun 1997 20:27:30 GMT
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Rick Lee (isoft@pacbell.net) wrote:
: I have FreeBSD 2.1, 2 CD ROM set, and trying to install on second hard
: drive. Installs fine but cannot boot. I'm using System Commander as a
: boot manager which adds BSD as a menu item after installing FreeBSD
: but when I try to boot the system hangs. I tried Booteasy, standard,
: and leave boot alone options. All hangs when I try to boot. After
: reading through this news group it seems you can install FreeBSD on a
: second hard drive. My first hard drive is full and cannot spare a
: byte. 

: Can somebody quickly tell me if I can install FreeBSD on my second
: hard drive and if so what do I need to do? If not I would like to try
: LINUX which seems to work fine on any drive on any partition.

: Thank you


Some BIOS does not support booting from second hard-drive even you install
it correctly.   

If the BIOS does not have the option for booting up in second hard-drive,
it's possible that it doesn't support it.