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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot manager Date: 2 Mar 1996 20:11:01 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4haa0l$af@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4gbsnj$b0n@raffles.technet.sg> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 maverick@po.pacific.net.sg (Maverick Research Inc Pte Ltf) writes: > How does one install the FreeBSD Boot Manager on a floppy ? I.e. how > can I boot from the floppy ? See my followup to ``Possible to boot from floppy then switch to SCSI HD''. > However, I can't boot from the third hard-disk using the suggested > syntax hd(2,a)/kernel (I also tried hd(2,b) , upto hd(2,d). > Can someone help me here ? If this third hard disk is in a mixed wd/sd configuration, it will be tricky. You have to hard-wire FreeBSD's SCSI disk unit number mapping to match the BIOS' one. If it's all SCSI, don't use the `hd' notation. Instead, boot with ``sd(2,a)/kernel''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)