Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 11:53:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To slave or not to slave new 4G hard drive & reinstall Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980510115133.4464D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980509163357.27028A-100000@echonyc.com>
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On Sat, 9 May 1998, Ken Seggerman wrote: > Thank you for your reply. Just the sort of information I was waiting for > before opening up the case. > > Once I put the new drive in, I assume that I make the smaller original > drive the master, and the second larger drive the slave, allowing me > to leave Windows95 and the dual-boot controller where they are. Not to say that you can't put them on their own controllers, but you'll need to build a new kernel first instructing it where wd1 will end up. I'll post my boilerplate below for reference. > I assume that if I give Windows more room, and move the FreeBSD boot > sector, that I will have to somehow inform the dual-boot controller of the > new address for the FreeBSD boot sector. No, Booteasy rereads the partition tables on every boot and therefore requires no configuration. If you get the message: panic: Cannot mount root At the end of the probe sequence you should either: 1. Have the line: config kernel root on wd2 in your kernel config, OR: 2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other parameters unchanged). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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