Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 02:07:14 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: Al Goldstein <al@sense-gold-134.oz.net>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: adding harddisk Message-ID: <394EB5B2.B28F899F@gmx.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006191442450.12245-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net>
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Hello Al, > I have 2 disks containing freebsd 3.2 and 4.0, respectively, on > their second partition. The first partitions are both dos. Both disks > were built as the first drive. I'm not sure what you mean with "built as first drive". IDE-Disks jumpered to be master on an IDE-Channel? Or did you physically change the disk and installed your systems with only one disk inside? I recommend to jumper each of them as master, attaching them to different IDE-channels and to change your CD-ROM (if you have one :-) ) to be jumpered as slave and be attached to the IDE-Channel with the disk you use less (different to SCSI you can only adress one thing on an IDE-channel at the same time). > Is it possible to connect one as the > second drive and be able to access freebsd? Which boot manager are you using? I never used the FreeBSD one, so I can't help you with this, but I really adore xosl (look for www.xosl.org). Freeware, graphical interface with mouse support on boot time (!), easy to configure, all possibilites including hiding partitions and marking active partition on boot time. This thing will offer you all bootable partitions in a menu, you only have to select with a mouse and name them. It can be installed either on a DOS-Partition or in a small partition of its own. It will save your original MBR and offer you this one too as a possibility to boot. > Since dos won't boot on a second drive I'm willing to give that up. According to the xosl manuals, this isn't completely correct. DOS can be booted from a second disk, if there are no DOS-partitions on the first one (at least no primary partitions, I don't remember exactly). So you would have to hide the primary DOS-partition on your first disk, if you want to boot of the second one. xosl claims to be able to do that, but I never tried it by myself. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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