Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:15:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ken Mason <KMASON@MAIL.NYSED.GOV> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a machine with 2 hardrives Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961105131429.6710D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <s27f4f32.056@MAIL.NYSED.GOV>
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Ken Mason wrote: > I have an old AT&T 6386/SX machine that I have been running FreeBSD > 2.1 on for several months. The machine originally had one 80 meg hard > drive (Quantum ProDrive). I have installed a second hard drive ( 120 meg > Maxtor) and have reformatted the original hard drive back to dos. > > The machine boots to dos without any problems and both hard drives are > usable. Check so far. > I am now attempting to re-install (from floppies) FreeBSD 2.1. However, > the presence of the second hard drive seems to causing grief during the > installation. The installation finds the original disk controller (wdc0, irq > 14) and 80 meg hard drive (wd0) however it does not appear to find the > second hard drive. Eventually, the install hangs with a blank screen > following the message "/stand/sysinstall running as init". At this point, a > power off/on is required to restart the computer. Ack. Did you jumper the second drive to slave mode? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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