From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 13:19:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA25455 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:19:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA25449 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:19:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA06738; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:15:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:15:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ken Mason cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a machine with 2 hardrives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Ken Mason wrote: > 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. Check so far. > 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. Ack. Did you jumper the second drive to slave mode? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major