Hello,
I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD
from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and
ad3. My hardware configuration is such:
ad0 -- primary IDE, master (all for Win2k)
ad3 -- secondary IDE, slave (all for FreeBSD 5.3)
No more device on the primary IDE while a CD drive acts as the master on the
secondary IDE.
I used the entire space on ad3 for a FreeBSD 5.3 release installation while the
ad0 contains my old Win 2k. The problem now is that I can't boot FreeBSD at
all even though I had selected "install boot manager" during the installation.
The PC went straight to Win2k every time I booted. I tried to reboot from the
distribution CDROM and used the FDISK utility to make sure that the FreeBSD
slice is flagged as "A=" but it did nothing. In the BIOS setting, I selected
the slave drive, i.e. ad3, to be the first boot device, and the ad0 to be
second. Still, I couldn't get to FreeBSD.
It appears to me that I did not have the boot manager installed on the ad0.
But when I tried to "install boot manager" onto the ad0, the fdisk gave me no
hint where to write the MBR. Basically what I did was:
select "install boot manager"
select "ad0"
hit the "q" key
select "install boot manager"
select "ad3"
hit the "q" key
I know I must have done something wrong. But what did I do wrong?
rain
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