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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!oldfart.ecl.wustl.edu!news From: jxh@plethora.cs.wustl.edu (James Hu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot off 2nd IDE drive? Date: 20 Jun 1996 23:06:56 -0500 Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Lines: 20 Sender: jxh@plethora.cs.wustl.edu Message-ID: <qtf4to53in3.fsf@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> References: <31C84997.4BC5@ase.telerate.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plethora.cs.wustl.edu In-reply-to: Jim King's message of Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:40:23 -0500 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 >>>>> "Jim" == Jim King <jim@ase.telerate.com> writes: In article <31C84997.4BC5@ase.telerate.com> Jim King <jim@ase.telerate.com> writes: Jim> I just got a new PC with pre-installed software on an IDE hard Jim> drive. To save myself the hassle of repartitioning I'd like to Jim> install a 2nd IDE drive and install FreeBSD on that drive. Will Jim> I be able to boot FreeBSD off the 2nd drive? Yes, with a boot manager. I have mine setup similarly. The master IDE drive holds DOS, the slave IDE drive holds FreeBSD. I have the boot manager installed on both, but I guess it's really only required for the master IDE drive. The install procedure will ask you whether or not you want to install the boot manager. Just say yes. -- James