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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and EIDE ?
Date: 5 Sep 1995 11:23:25 +0200
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Jim McGrady <jimm@beirut> wrote:

>I have installed FreeBSD on my D drive, DOS on my C drive, and Boot
>Manager to choose between them.  The problem is that the PC will always
>boot from the C: drive.  Could this be a result of my EIDE controller ?

You probably have the boot manager only on the second drive, while the
BIOS will only boot off the first one.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)