From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 19 19:52:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sense-gold-134.oz.net (sense-gold-134.oz.net [216.39.162.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7265A37B89E for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from al@sense-gold-134.oz.net) Received: from localhost (al@localhost) by sense-gold-134.oz.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA12606; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:53:53 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:53:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Al Goldstein To: Siegbert Baude Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: adding harddisk In-Reply-To: <394EB5B2.B28F899F@gmx.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Siegbert Baude wrote: Hi Siegbert, Thanks for your reply. The disks were made at different times. Both were made as the master with cdrom as a slave. The second ide controller was shut off. I was referring to the freebsd bootmanager. I'll take a look at xosl. Have you used xosl with freebsd? Cheers..........Al > Hello Al, > > > I have 2 disks containing freebsd 3.2 and 4.0, respectively, on > > their second partition. The first partitions are both dos. Both disks > > were built as the first drive. > I'm not sure what you mean with "built as first drive". IDE-Disks > jumpered to be master on an IDE-Channel? Or did you physically change > the disk and installed your systems with only one disk inside? > I recommend to jumper each of them as master, attaching them to > different IDE-channels and to change your CD-ROM (if you have one :-) ) > to be jumpered as slave and be attached to the IDE-Channel with the disk > you use less (different to SCSI you can only adress one thing on an > IDE-channel at the same time). > > Is it possible to connect one as the > > second drive and be able to access freebsd? > Which boot manager are you using? I never used the FreeBSD one, so I > can't help you with this, but I really adore xosl (look for > www.xosl.org). Freeware, graphical interface with mouse support on boot > time (!), easy to configure, all possibilites including hiding > partitions and marking active partition on boot time. > This thing will offer you all bootable partitions in a menu, you only > have to select with a mouse and name them. It can be installed either on > a DOS-Partition or in a small partition of its own. It will save your > original MBR and offer you this one too as a possibility to boot. > > Since dos won't boot on a second drive I'm willing to give that up. > According to the xosl manuals, this isn't completely correct. DOS can be > booted from a second disk, if there are no DOS-partitions on the first > one (at least no primary partitions, I don't remember exactly). So you > would have to hide the primary DOS-partition on your first disk, if you > want to boot of the second one. xosl claims to be able to do that, but I > never tried it by myself. > > Ciao > Siegbert > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message