Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 09:41:40 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: john@o-farrell.com Subject: Installing FBSD on a second harddisk. Message-ID: <19970504094140.07712@pavilion.net>
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Hi there, I'm trying to work out how to get a working freebsd on a second harddisk. The primary hd has win95 on it, and the secondary hd is a jazz drive. They're both scsi. After running the install disk and doing the normal stuff the system reboots. I can make it boot off the second drive but as soon as it trys to mount the root partition it flounders and panics. I've noticed in the kernel config that there is a: kernel boot wd0 line, but my primary drive is sd0 so I'm confused. What's the obvious thing that I'm missing? Maybe Jordon could include some extra stuff in sysinstall to allow this to work on the install. I'm sure that lots of people out there want this functionality. I've got around it on my P100 machine by creating a small partition on my win95 drive to contain '/' and everything else in on my second 2gb ide drive. I wish that I could keep them totally separate though. What would be really cool is if I could could have a scsi disk with freebsd on, which I could change the id on and still have freebsd find it's root partition. What would it take to make this happen. (Point me in the direction of the right place in the kernel source and I'll take a look my self if everyone else is too busy.) Joe -- Josef Karthauser Technical Manager Email: joe@pavilion.net Pavilion Internet plc. [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073]
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