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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: boot manager
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 17:59:54 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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In article <5ekeim$t4g@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>,
	gegressy@uoguelph.ca (Gabor Egressy) writes:
> Hi
> 
> I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction.  Here
> is my problem.  I have two harddrives, both IDE.  The first one is a
> 1.7G partitioned into four roughly equal size partitions and has win95
> on it.  The second one is a 500M and I installed FreeBSD on it.  FreeBSD
> occupise the entire disk.  Unfortunately I cannot boot into it with the
> boot floppy after installation.  When installing it FreeBSD recognized
> it as wd2(winchester disk 2).  I tried to boot from the floppy when I
> got the boot: prompt with boot : wd(2,a)/kernel.

Your two IDE drives should be wd0 and wd1, not wd1 and wd2.

Have you tried wd(1,a)/kernel?

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Conrad Sabatier		http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads