Re: boot manager oddity (two IDE drives, two o/s)

2007-10-26 Thread Mark Moellering
On Thursday 25 October 2007 8:38 am, William Bulley wrote: I have two IDE drives (ad0 and ad1) on a Dell system that is running Windows XP on ad0 and FreeBSD 6.2 on ad1. Drive ad0 is 80 GB. Drive ad1 is 250 GB. When I installed FreeBSD onto ad1, I installed the FreeBSD boot manager onto

boot manager oddity (two IDE drives, two o/s)

2007-10-25 Thread William Bulley
I have two IDE drives (ad0 and ad1) on a Dell system that is running Windows XP on ad0 and FreeBSD 6.2 on ad1. Drive ad0 is 80 GB. Drive ad1 is 250 GB. When I installed FreeBSD onto ad1, I installed the FreeBSD boot manager onto both ad0 and ad1 disk drives. When the machine powers up from a