From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 09:53:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA15974 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:53:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from vdp01.vailsystems.com (root@vdp01.vailsystems.com [207.152.98.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA15965 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:53:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from crocodile.vale.com (crocodile [204.117.217.147]) by vdp01.vailsystems.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA15334; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:05:29 -0600 (CST) Received: from jaguar (jaguar.vale.com [204.117.217.146]) by crocodile.vale.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA27153; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:51:37 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3274F4FA.612D@vailsys.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:01:30 -0600 From: Hal Snyder Reply-To: hal@vailsys.com Organization: Vail Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Timothy Moore CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a second, bootable disk References: <199610271803.KAA25571@gonzo.wolfenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Timothy Moore wrote: > > Hi, > I've added a 4gig SCSI drive to my FreeBSD (mostly) 2.1.5-release > system for the purpose of installing current. I think I'm clear on > the procedure described in Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD". > However, what seems to be missing is how to make the second disk > bootable using the userland tools. I spent many happy hours getting this to work with 2.1.5R. I never got booteasy to work with the second drive, but here's a summary of the rest: http://www.vailsys.com/bsd/booter.html > I guess an alternative is to use /stand/sysinstall. My /stand is > pretty old, dating from around 2.0.5. Is it safe to use for this > purpose, or should I rebuild sysintall from the 2.1.5 sources? Is > anything else needed besides the sysinstall binary? I have not had success mixing old sysinstall with newer system bits.