Multiboot SATA/PATA (changed subject)

[Erik Norgaard]

Andrew Falanga wrote:

> I'm new to FreeBSD but not to UNIX.  The guy who burned me the 6.0 
> release iso's told me that during the install, FreeBSD would detect my 
> Windows XP drive but it didn't.  I have two hard drives, one for FreeBSD 
> one for Windows.  The FreeBSD drive is SATA and the Windows is PATA 
> (IDE, but I'm sure you all knew that).

I have the same or similar problem, only that both my hard drives are 
SATA: (dmesg)

ad4: 38146MB <WDC WD400BD-75JMA0 05.01C05> at ata2-master SATA150
ad5: 38146MB <WDC WD400BD-75LRA0 09.01D09> at ata2-slave SATA150
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a

The boot loader gives me two options F1 FreeBSD and F5 Unknown but 
chosing either will boot FreeBSD?

Cheers, Erik
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