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by **Colin Theflea** » Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:00:16

Hi
Is it possible to force the boot manager to boot to disk2 instead of disk1
under the F5 function at start?
I have a dual boot on the first disk (FreeBSD and Windows 98) So I can
choose between F1 DOS or F2 FreeBSD, this works. But I have a second HDD
with windows 2000 and it boots from the bios (if I unplug the 1st disk).
But when this 2nd disk is also installed ,the FreeBSD boot manager sees it
and gives me a 3rd choice: F5 disk1. But I need F5 disk2!!! Disk1 boots
windows on the 1st disk. How can I change it? I read a lot in the Internet
about /boot/.... in FreeBSD but couldn't manage to find out how to tell the
boot manager to boot disk2 on the F5 function key.

Thanks for your ideas
Ciao
Colin

by **annel..** » Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:39:21

> Hi
> Is it possible to force the boot manager to boot to disk2 instead of disk1
> under the F5 function at start?
> I have a dual boot on the first disk (FreeBSD and Windows 98) So I can
> choose between F1 DOS or F2 FreeBSD, this works. But I have a second HDD
> with windows 2000 and it boots from the bios (if I unplug the 1st disk).
> But when this 2nd disk is also installed ,the FreeBSD boot manager sees it
> and gives me a 3rd choice: F5 disk1. But I need F5 disk2!!! Disk1 boots
> windows on the 1st disk. How can I change it? I read a lot in the Internet
> about /boot/.... in FreeBSD but couldn't manage to find out how to tell the
> boot manager to boot disk2 on the F5 function key.
> Thanks for your ideas
> Ciao
> Colin

You need to install the boot manager on disk2; you can do this from
/stand/sysinstall >Configure: Post-Install Configuration of FreeBSD>
FDISK>Select drive by pressing spacebar>In fdisk just press q (don't
do anything else) and install the FreeBSD boot manager. Then press
cancel to get out of sysinstall on the next screens and exit.

You can all use boot0cfg /dev/ad1 --I think that would be appropriate
for your system.

Annelise
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Annelise Anderson
Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC
Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/

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