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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.cais.net!news.cais.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with Boot Manager Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 07:23:16 -0700 Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <31B83B54.7BE1@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4p81oc$43d@larry.rice.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.157.126.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) John Paul Campbell wrote: > > I've installed FreeBSD on my d: (slave ) drive and am having trouble getting > Boot Manager to work. Boot Manager must be installed on Drive C: so it will be loaded at bootup. It can then recognize and access both drives. > > The fdisk in FreeBSD says it is a bootable partition, but I'm not sure if it's > been set active. It can't be, in that sense. The BIOS can't boot it directly. That's why the DOS FDISK program refuses to set as active any partition on Drive D:. > > Has anyone tried this from a Slave drive and if so, do you have any advice? > I haven't done it quite this way, but any time I place a slave drive on a system that has Boot Mgr on Drive C:, it immediately offers me a choice of hitting F5 to boot from disk 2. Perhaps you could do this: Use Novice install and tell it that you are installing to wd0 initially. Then make no changes to the partition map, but tell the install routine to immediately write the partition information (that you haven't changed) to disk. Select the Boot Manager from the list and it will be installed. Now, back out and restart the boot floppy. This time, select wd1 as your destination (if that's your choice), and proceed with the install as desired. I've never tried it this way, but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work. Ken