From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 30 20:55:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA01052 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 20:55:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from onyx.interactive.net (root@onyx.interactive.net [208.192.224.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA01044 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 20:55:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [208.192.234.114] (host014.nyc.interactive.net [208.192.234.114]) by onyx.interactive.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id XAA14982 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 23:54:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 23:54:47 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: cbooth@user.interactive.net (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: cbooth@onyx.interactive.net (Christopher J. Booth) Subject: Installing FreeBSD on New 2nd Hard Drive Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi. How should I set up a new second hard drive to install and run FreeBSD? Yesterday I bought a new 2.1-GB hard drive and installed it. I already have a 1.2-GB hard drive, master on the first IDE drive, with a 50-MB DOS partition; I had previously had about a ~400-MB FreeBSD partition, and then the rest was taken up by Red Hat Linux 4.0. The cdrom is attached as a slave on the first IDE drive. I wanted to put FreeBSD on the new drive, by itself, and dedicate all but the ~50 MB to Linux. It seems that FreeBSD will only install on the 2nd drive if that drive is jumpered as a slave in the 2nd IDE drive. But the computer will only recognize the 2nd hard drive if it is master on the 2nd IDE drive. DOS will not recognize the 2nd drive, and AMIBIOS says that the disk has failed if it is jumpered as slave on the 2nd IDE drive. CMOS acknowledges it. Incidentally, Linux very sweetly recognizes everything, and LILO ("Linux loader"), tried to install all three choices in the boot manager on the first drive, but that screwed up somehow, and right now nothing boots. BootEasy didn't see Linux, or install on the boot manager on the first drive. Thanks. BTW, I am rather tired, so I apologise if my message here is even more incoherent than usual. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Booth What, in ill thought again? Men must endure cbooth@mordor.com Their going hence, even as their coming hither: Ripeness is all. ... --Edgar, _King Lear_