From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 10 08:57:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA12676 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 08:57:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yoss.canweb.net (root@yoss.canweb.net [207.139.235.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA12665 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 08:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (yossman@localhost) by yoss.canweb.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA22532 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:51:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:51:56 -0400 (EDT) From: yossman Reply-To: yossman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: secondary IDE? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk we installed FreeBSD on the slave drive on the primary IDE channel on a machine we're working on. the master on the primary IDE has w95 on it. we use the installation boot floppy to get a boot: prompt, then type 'wd(1,a)/kernel' to boot from the slave drive on the primary IDE channel. this works great. then, we moved the drive from slave on primary to master on secondary IDE. the installation kernel sees the drive as 'wd2', but when i try 'wd2(0,a)/kernel' at the boot: prompt i get 'bad disklabel'. i've tried to go back into the installation to re-write the partitions/disklabels/bootmanager, but every time i try to commit my changes it asks me to select media, a distribution, and configure my stupid ethernet device. i don't WANT to actually install anything, i just want to rewrite the disklabel and partition information back out to the drive. i note the (W)rite option was taken out of the partition and label screens. was this because no one could get it working satisfactorily? i'd love any help -- the FreeBSD Handbook seems TOTALLY bare when i check for IDE configuration information. yossman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yossarian Holmberg (yossman) yossman@canweb.net System Administrator, National Online http://www.canweb.net/~yossman/ my statements are my own, not my employer's -- i do not speak for them. '... and if i die, before i learn to speak .. can money pay for all the days i've lived awake but half asleep?' -- Primitive Radio Gods, "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand"