You can try out vlc i have had great success in playing dvds with it. * rain cip ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" +----------==/\/\==----------+ (__) FreeBSD | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | \\\'',) The | Kernel ESCAFLOWNE | \/ \ ^ Power | Web http://unixdaemon.org | .\._/_) To +----------==\/\/==----------+ Serve
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