From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 22:07:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16562106567B for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:07:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB1078FC15 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:07:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-40-10.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.40.10]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6771A3E0B6; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:07:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id q5LM7SiJ007583; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:07:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:07:28 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Message-Id: <20120622000728.6b3c16b9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20120621095919.CLF58658@ms5.mc.surewest.net> References: <20120621095919.CLF58658@ms5.mc.surewest.net> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:07:32 -0000 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, ...