How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk

[Dev Tugnait]

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* rain cip (raincip at yahoo.com) 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
> 
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