After Install -- Where is FreeBSD? -- Follow-up
Ryan Sommers
ryans at gamersimpact.com
Tue Jun 21 12:23:19 GMT 2005
Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> Just for the record, I have two primary HD. Windows is installed on the
> first (ad0) and FreeBSD on the second (ad1).
>
A few things...
1) Welcome to FreeBSD, don't get too discouraged over these issues,
everyone had/s them the first time they move to an opensource os. The
rewards from perseverance will be great.
2) What happened is FreeBSD installed the Master Boot Record (MBR) on
ad1. The MBR is responsible for holding the CPUs hand so it can begin
booting the OS. It also holds the partition table. When your computer
boots the first thing that executes is the BIOS. When that is finished
it loads the first sector, the MBR, of the first BIOS boot device to a
very specific memory location and begins executing it. In your case the
first boot device is your WinXP drive. You need to change the boot
device to the second harddrive, change your harddrive order, or write an
MBR to the first disk that will handle booting from multiple disks.
3) This mailing list isn't the preferred place for these sorts of
questions. In the FreeBSD world current at freebsd.org is the mailing list
for issues pertaining to the FREEBSD-CURRENT CVS branch. This boils down
to the head of the development branch where all new code and patches are
applied. It also means that FREEBSD-CURRENT can, will and does break
often but the skill set of those running it is such that they can deal
with it.
A more appropriate list for these questions would be
questions at freebsd.org. As a newcomer to the OS I would highly recommend
you subscribe to the questions@ mailing list because reading other
people's questions will greatly add to your experience and might answer
a question you had but hadn't asked yet.
4) I'd highly recommend you familiarize yourself with the FreeBSD
website, the developers have done a fantastic job and there is an
enormous amount of information on it. I'd make the FreeBSD handbook your
best friend as it will answer a ton of questions for you.
Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
Mailing Lists:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL
FreeBSD Newbies page: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html
Have fun!
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Ryan Sommers
ryans at gamersimpact.com
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