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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.inet.tele.dk!voskovec.radio.cz!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!insl1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de!erb From: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Olaf Erb) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sd2/2 FreeBSD installation problem Date: 24 Sep 1996 06:27:44 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 25 Message-ID: <527v10$g24@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <51pdak$s1@ns1.win.net> <3244C4A3.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de NNTP-Posting-Host: insl1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-No-Archive: Yes In article <3244C4A3.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >Mr.Andrew Micheals wrote: >> to pull floppy and to key enter then reboots. Present system software >> on this machine is dos and windows using all space except aprox 2nd >> half of 3rd physical hard drive, this space is 1036 mb's and in bsd's >> fdisk editor shows the correct 1023 cyl's with no aparent problems > >You cannot boot from the 3rd drive, only one of the first two. FreeBSD >cannot be installed in this fashion, and you will either have to find >some space on one of the first two drives or just dedicate a different >machine to FreeBSD and leave your windows system alone. I did a similar install on sd2. After completion of install I mounted the disk with a fixit floppy, built a custom kernel with root/swap on sd2, (after chrooting to the mounted disk), et voila'. I just cp'd the kernel to a dos partition and used fbsdboot.exe to boot this kernel. The hardware was three SCSI disks on a aha1542b that can't boot from sd2. Olaf -- There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. -- Richard Bach, Illusions