Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:19:49 -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.4.21.0006192013470.12245-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net> In-Reply-To: <394EB5B2.B28F899F@gmx.de>
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Siegbert Baude wrote: I forgot to mention, Siegbert, that if I try booting these disks from ide-2, which my bios allows, the boot will start out but ultimately fails, because the root partition won't mount. Maybe the OS would have to be fooled with phoney disk number.............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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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