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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.chattanooga.net!tarush!tom From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush) Subject: Re: Custom boot floppy? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Rush Co. Message-ID: <DL9zFz.97@tarush.chattanooga.net> References: <30F57620.41C6@cs.uml.edu> <30F622EE.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> <i66hgy1fiy2.fsf@graphics.cis.upenn.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:14:22 GMT Lines: 21 Timothy N. Jones (tnj@graphics.cis.upenn.edu) wrote: : I have two hard drives. Windows 95 is on the first, and I want to put FreeBSD : on the second. I don't want to muck around with the MBR on the first (which I : believe implies that I don't want to install a boot manager). : With Linux, I create a boot floppy which loads Linux from the second drive. I : boot off this floppy when I want to run Linux. Is such a thing currently : possible with FreeBSD? This can be done with the installation boot floppy. When the "Boot: " prompt appears, type "sd(1,a)/kernel" (both drives on SCSI controller); "wd(1,a)/kernel" (both drives on IDE controller); or "hd(1,a)/kernel" for special case when BSD is on first drive, but on a second controller. The only thing you are using on the floppy are the boot blocks; the kernel is on the hard drive. This is a much simpler problem than that of the original poster, who needed a custom kernel _on_ the floppy. -- Tom Rush tom@tarush.chattanooga.net