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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:53:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Al Goldstein <al@sense-gold-134.oz.net>
To:        Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: adding harddisk
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006191947350.12245-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net>
In-Reply-To: <394EB5B2.B28F899F@gmx.de>

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Siegbert Baude wrote:
Hi Siegbert,

Thanks for your reply. The disks were made at different times. Both were made
as the master with cdrom as a slave. The second ide controller was shut off.
I was referring to the freebsd bootmanager. I'll take a look at xosl.
Have you used xosl with freebsd?

Cheers..........Al

> 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
> 



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