From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 00:36:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA06678 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 00:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA06673 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 00:36:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA28233; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 10:34:52 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma028231; Sun Dec 1 10:34:40 1996 Message-ID: <32A14304.E67@barcode.co.il> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 10:34:12 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Christopher J. Booth" CC: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on New 2nd Hard Drive References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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