From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 15 08:41:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F152816A454 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:41:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from strange.daemonsecurity.com (59.Red-81-33-11.staticIP.rima-tde.net [81.33.11.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ADBF43D75 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:41:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [172.24.8.84] (generic.ATOSORIGIN.ES [212.170.156.200]) by strange.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860352E307; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:41:23 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43A12C32.70801@locolomo.org> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:41:22 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051214) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Falanga References: <43A0E32F.8080305@icehouse.net> In-Reply-To: <43A0E32F.8080305@icehouse.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiboot SATA/PATA (changed subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:41:27 -0000 Andrew Falanga wrote: > I'm new to FreeBSD but not to UNIX. The guy who burned me the 6.0 > release iso's told me that during the install, FreeBSD would detect my > Windows XP drive but it didn't. I have two hard drives, one for FreeBSD > one for Windows. The FreeBSD drive is SATA and the Windows is PATA > (IDE, but I'm sure you all knew that). I have the same or similar problem, only that both my hard drives are SATA: (dmesg) ad4: 38146MB at ata2-master SATA150 ad5: 38146MB at ata2-slave SATA150 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a The boot loader gives me two options F1 FreeBSD and F5 Unknown but chosing either will boot FreeBSD? Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9