Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:32:31 -0500 From: Leonard Zettel <zettel@acm.org> To: lucas@slb.to, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dualing file systems Message-ID: <3AC24A5F.48A0D4F1@acm.org> References: <3AC0FF92.9C85FBA2@acm.org> <20010327164325.A32327@billygoat.slb.to> <3AC135A6.C6CE784A@acm.org> <20010328101504.A13315@billygoat.slb.to>
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Progress staggers on! Lucas, you gave me enough pointers to munge around and discover that, for reasons I do not pretend to understand (but darn well intend to some day) my bsd system has designated the Windoz hard drive as ad2 with the following correspondence: ad2s1 <-> C: ad2s5 <-> D: ad2s3 <-> E: thanks again -LenZ- Lucas Bergman wrote: > > > > What does "fdisk ad1" say? > > > > cannot open disk /dev/ad1: Device not configured > > > > > "dmesg | grep ad1"? > > > > absolutely nothing. > > > > I think I am catching the drift. FreeBSD doesn't know the disk is > > there, probably because I have not mentioned it up to now in setting > > things up. > > Something like that. Specifically, your kernel know about the second > hard disk (ad1), either because your kernel doesn't contain > information about that device, or because it's been disabled at > boot-time. (Generally speaking, "device not configured" is a > euphemism for "kernel has no idea what this device is.") > > If you're using a custom kernel, make sure it contains support for the > second hard drive. Regardless of what kernel you're using, do a "boot > -c", and make sure that support for ad1 isn't disabled. > > > What should I be looking for in the Handbook or The Complete > > FreeBSD? > > Sections on configuring and building kernels (if you're using a custom > one) or a section on boot-time configuration would be places to > start. (I don't own The Complete FreeBSD, so the sections I mention > may or may not exist.) > > > Oh, and thanks for the quick, businesslike response. > > No problem at all. > > Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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