Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 10:34:12 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onyx.interactive.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on New 2nd Hard Drive Message-ID: <32A14304.E67@barcode.co.il> References: <aec66ff1010210046148@[208.192.234.114]>
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Christopher J. Booth wrote:
>
> 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_
FreeBSD should have no problem recognizing a master hard disk on the
secondary IDE controller. However, the easiest thing to do in such a case is
leave the root partition on the first disk. If you'll install all of FreeBSD
on the second disk, you'll probably need to rebuild the kernel and/or boot
with something like: 1:wd(2,a)/kernel at the boot: prompt.
Nadav
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