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From: Ken Mason <KMASON@MAIL.NYSED.GOV>
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Subject:  Installing FreeBSD on a machine with 2 hardrives
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I have an old AT&T 6386/SX machine that I have been running FreeBSD
2.1 on for several months.  The machine originally had one 80 meg hard
drive (Quantum ProDrive).  I have installed a second hard drive ( 120 meg
Maxtor) and have reformatted the original hard drive back to dos.

The machine boots to dos without any problems and both hard drives are
usable.

I am now attempting to re-install (from floppies) FreeBSD 2.1.  However,
the presence of the second hard drive seems to causing grief during the
installation.  The installation finds the original disk controller (wdc0, irq
14) and 80 meg hard drive (wd0) however it does not appear to find the
second hard drive.  Eventually, the install hangs with a blank screen
following the message "/stand/sysinstall running as init".  At this point, a
power off/on is required to restart the computer.

I would greatly appreciate any information that you could provide  in
regard to how I might be able to resolve this problem.

Kenneth Mason
Data Communications Specialist
New York State Education Department
kmason@mail.nysed.gov