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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: steranka@steranka.com (Patrick Steranka) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot manager Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 22:25:24 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 25 Message-ID: <MPG.d783133e679cb6989692@news.erols.com> References: <5ekeim$t4g@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: col-as13s35.erols.com X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v1.01 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35961 In article <5ekeim$t4g@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>, gegressy@uoguelph.ca says... > I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. I doubt it, but I'll give it a try. > 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. I have a very similar configuration which I installed FreeBSD on. > FreeBSD occupise the entire [2nd] 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. This did not work [...] At this prompt, I typed sd(1,a)kernel and it read (booted) from the 2nd IDE disk drive. I'm not sure if it will work for you but you can give it a try. Good luck, -- patrick steranka -- steranka@steranka.com