Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:07:28 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: <leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot Message-ID: <20120622000728.6b3c16b9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20120621095919.CLF58658@ms5.mc.surewest.net> References: <20120621095919.CLF58658@ms5.mc.surewest.net>
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:59:19 -0700 (PDT), leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net wrote: > Although the FreeBSD operating system seems to see the second > hard drive, it does not mount it upon startup. FreeBSD won't mount anything until explicitely told so. Check the output of dmesg (e. g. "dmesg | grep ^ad" or "dmesg | grep ^da") for the drive designation and issue the command yourself. If everything works, you can add an entry to /etc/fstab to make it mount on startup, e. g. # device target type options d p # -------- ---------- ---- --------- - - /dev/ad1s1 /xp/system ntfs ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/ad1s2 /xp/data ntfs ro,noauto 0 0 It might be worth applying other options like -M (mask) to have the missing attributes and "misinterpretation as executables" of NTFS file systems corrects. See the manual for details. > It does not appear in the fstab file. This file is not generated automatically. It's an entirely "user serviceable" part of the OS. > I attempted to mount it manually using the mount command, without > success, just to see if any of the data files could be read. Can you show the mount command? I think it will be something like # mount_ntfs -o ro /dev/ad1s1 /mnt If you need write access, ntfs3g / FUSE would be a good tool. Also see the port "ntfsprogs" which contains useful tools for dealing with NTFS. > I ran fsidk -B on the zeroeth sector of the second hard drive, but > that did not seem to help. You need to apply boot0cfg to install the initial boot blocks. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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