Booting from a hard disk not supported by the BIOS

[VPS Colo Support]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Konrad Scorciapino wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got an old computer with 2 hard disks. The first has 2GB and
> FreeBSD installed; the second, 20GB and windows installed. However, the
> computer's BIOS is quite old and doesn't detect the second hard disk, so
> I cannot boot from it. So how can I do that? I've tried installing
> FreeBSD's boot manager, but apparently it gets the devices' information
> from BIOS, since the only hard disk that appears in the boot list is the
> first one. Or perhaps there is a file somewhere to edit and add all
> information.

Could you do a very small install on the primary hard disk and then use
theat to boot the 20G disk?

Rus

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