From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 27 10:03:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA04827 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:03:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from wolfe.net (mail1.wolfe.net [204.157.98.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA04822 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from gonzo.wolfenet.com (moore@gonzo.wolfenet.com [204.157.98.2]) by wolfe.net (8.8.0/8.8.0) with ESMTP id LAA16077 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:03:53 -0700 (PPET) From: Timothy Moore Received: (from moore@localhost) by gonzo.wolfenet.com (8.7/8.7) id KAA25571; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:03:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:03:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199610271803.KAA25571@gonzo.wolfenet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Adding a second, bootable disk Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. If there is only going to be a single FreeBSD partion on the disk, can I use disklabel(8) to write the bootblocks? It seems like I need to do something to the MBR too and neither the disklabel or fdisk man pages say anything about that. 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? Tim