Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk
Thanks, Joshua. This appears to be the easiest way to add multiple OSs. I installed gag and added another Linux OS parition in no time. Great tool! rain Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:26:38 -0800 (PST), rain cip wrote: 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) I know I must have done something wrong. But what did I do wrong? I'm not sure. I know that I use a tool called GAG to boot mutliple OSes from assorted locations, and it has always worked very well for me. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate - Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! What will yours do? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk
You can try out vlc i have had great success in playing dvds with it. * rain cip ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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 - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--==/\/\==--+ (__) FreeBSD | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\\\'',) The |Kernel ESCAFLOWNE | \/ \ ^Power | Web http://unixdaemon.org | .\._/_)To +--==\/\/==--+ Serve [ We've switched the bath sponge with a tribble. ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:26:38 -0800 (PST), rain cip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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) I know I must have done something wrong. But what did I do wrong? I'm not sure. I know that I use a tool called GAG to boot mutliple OSes from assorted locations, and it has always worked very well for me. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk
On Friday 26 November 2004 04:26, rain cip wrote: 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. It's not in general a very good idea to mix a CD drive and a hard drive on the same ide channel since they operate at the speed of the slower device. 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. I think that once you have installed a boot manager on the ad3 MBR, the active partition doesn't really mean anything. 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've never actually used the FreeBSD Boot manager, so I can't really comment on that. What you might do is install a standard MBR on ad3 and set your bios to boot that device. Once you have FreeBSD running, you can install GRUB from ports/packages, and put that on ad0. Alternately if you have some kind of Linux live cd, you might install lilo from that. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:21, RW wrote: On Friday 26 November 2004 04:26, rain cip wrote: 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. It's not in general a very good idea to mix a CD drive and a hard drive on the same ide channel since they operate at the speed of the slower device. So, assuming you do have a cdrom drive on the secondary controller, you could move your ad3 drive to the primary IDE controller boot from the Live CDrom to edit /etc/fstab to point to ad1 instead of ad3. That way you can run both windows FBSD without compromising disk speed! I've never actually used the FreeBSD Boot manager, so I can't really comment on that. What you might do is install a standard MBR on ad3 and set your bios to boot that device. Once you have FreeBSD running, you can install GRUB from ports/packages, and put that on ad0. Alternately if you have some kind of Linux live cd, you might install lilo from that. Or as Joshua suggested, use GAG - it's the easiest bootmanager to install configure that I've ever seen. Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgpK1Yzg53J93.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk
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 seem to be having the trouble of installing a MBR as well. I am wanting to install a new hard drive in my computer. After I resize the fdisk partition, my disk is no longer bootable even though the -B flag was specified. Odd... Wondering if our issue is related. I'm also running 5.3. Regards, Peter Hoskin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk
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 - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
