From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 25 10:53: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb1-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D99337B401 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14782 invoked by uid 0); 25 Oct 2001 17:52:54 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO oscar.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-1 with SMTP; 25 Oct 2001 17:52:54 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011025124328.00acfaa0@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:51:26 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Confusion on booting and order of drives Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a system with two drives, a 20GB that's the master on ata0 (CD-ROM is slave on ata0), and a 40GB drive as the master on ata1. I was having problems doing an install of FreeBSD 4.4 in that after I was finished with everything being installed on the 20GB drive and rebooted, I would get a message "Invalid Partition". I decided to try and isolate the problem and tried the following: 1. Just have 20GB drive and CD and do install This worked fine, no problem, booted into FreeBSD 4.4 2. Just have 40GB drive and CD and do install This worked fine, no problems, booted into FreeBSD 4.4 After I tried to use both together and mount the secon drive, I started getting the Invalid Partition error again. After doing the two steps above, I noticed that the system was booting off of the 40GB drive and since I didn't previously have anything on there, that's why I was getting the Invalid Partition error. I'm not sure why I'm even booting off the first drive on ata1 instead of the first drive on ata0. Both have full systems on them. How do I force booting off of the first drive. Also, I noticed that in partitioning the drives, I no longer get the "Dangerously Dedicated" screen. Is this still there? Am I having a problem because there's some kind of boot manager or mbr on the second drive? If so, how do I get rid of it? Any information would be appreciated. Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message