From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 13:05:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 421E716A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:05:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90F9A43D39 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:05:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from g.liakhovetski@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 10132 invoked by uid 65534); 25 Jan 2004 21:05:53 -0000 Received: from dialin-212-144-033-076.arcor-ip.net (EHLO poirot.grange) (212.144.33.76) by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 25 Jan 2004 22:05:53 +0100 X-Authenticated: #20450766 Received: from lyakh (helo=localhost) by poirot.grange with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AkrRT-0001mj-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:05:15 +0100 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:05:15 +0100 (CET) From: Guennadi Liakhovetski To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: BSD on a secondary disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:05:56 -0000 Hello Sure, the question has been answered a number of times - but I _did_ search on the web and _did_ looked in the handbook, and other places... So, the question is the following: I installed FreeBSD on a disk in one system, where it, probably, was at that time the slave, but I am not sure anymore. Then I moved it to another system as a slave. This system is somewhat funny. It's an old Compaq... I've got a SCSI disk with Linux in it and the disk in question. So, it's the only ATA disk in the system, but the only way to use both - a SCSI and an IDE disks in this PC is to connect the ATA disk as a slave, then it boots from SCSI. So, the question now is - how to boot BSD in this situation? I think, BIOS cannot boot directly from the slave. I tried configuring LILO with other=/dev/hdb1 table=/dev/hdb loader=/boot/chain.b label=BSD but it didn't work. So, am I right, that it's a BIOS limitation and the only way to boot BSD too in this system is to create one more small BSD-slice on the Linux disk, put there some first boot-stages of BSD and point it to /dev/ad1... How exactly do I do it? Can BSD use a 3Mb-big slice for this (I can free my former /boot partition on da0)? Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski