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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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