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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!garnet.bmr.gov.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to run FreeBSD from 2nd IDE drive Date: 26 Mar 1996 19:25:48 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4j9gbs$e3j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4j65qu$10@gate.netti.fi> 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 sakke@netti.fi (Saku Elovaara) writes: > Is it possible to run FreeBSD from 2nd IDE drive (slave) ? > ... maybe using a boot disk or something like that ... It is. Type wd(1,a)/kernel at the boot prompt. Of course, you need an MBR on the primary disk that allows you to boot the secondary disk, or you need to insert a boot floppy, and type the above there. -- 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. ;-)