From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 10:45:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0121B37B43E for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 10:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f4BHjac18784; Fri, 11 May 2001 10:45:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105111745.f4BHjac18784@ptavv.es.net> To: vijay Cc: questions Subject: Re: new hard disk In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 May 2001 10:37:34 PDT." <3AFC235E.4EB03339@iprg.nokia.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:45:35 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:37:34 -0700 > From: vijay > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hello. I have a Pentium II (399 MHz) machine which currently has > one hard disk with 6 gig storage. This disk currently has > FreeBSD 3.4 on it. I would like to add another disk to the > system and have the latest FteeBSD stable on it. Is it possible > to boot the system from any of these disks, or would I need a > boot floppy to alternately boot the system from the two disks. > The current disk is FUJITSU MPC3064AT. I guess I could buy the > new disk of any other make. I guess I should also check if there > is a slot for the new disk. Any help is appreciated.. This may be a BIOS issue. BootEasy will give you the ability to select a second disk for boot, but some BIOSes will only let you boot from a disk that is listed in BIOS as a possible boot disk and, since my ASUS will not accept C,D and a possibility, I need to go into BIOS and switch to "D only" before I can boot my second disk. I think my system is an exception, though. On my IBM system I get: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD F3 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 I then hit F5 and see: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk0 I press F2 to boot FreeBSD off of the second drive. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message