From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 19:35:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3792916A41F for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:35:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from excalibur@icehouse.net) Received: from mail.icehouse.net (mail.icehouse.net [216.255.223.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755D643D5C for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:35:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from excalibur@icehouse.net) Received: by mail.icehouse.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0082D60071; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:33:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [216.255.214.105] (ppp-boise-82.icehouse.net [216.255.214.105]) by mail.icehouse.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4B963843; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:51:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43A771C2.5040402@icehouse.net> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:51:46 -0700 From: Andrew Falanga User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Gayn Winters , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <058901c6012e$66b18070$6501a8c0@workdog> In-Reply-To: <058901c6012e$66b18070$6501a8c0@workdog> X-Scrubber-ClamAV: clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD, need some questions answered X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:35:47 -0000 >You mean you got through the install and when you were asked on which >slice you wanted to install FreeBSD you were only offered the choice of >the SATA drive? > >If you have a working FreeBSD system, what does dmesg say? What does >fdisk (from inside FreeBSD) say? They both only see the SATA drive? > >Boot the system from DOS and run DOS's fdisk; what does it say? > >If all the FreeBSD utilities can see the SATA but not the PATA drive, >then I'd check the cable and the jumpers on the PATA drive. Be sure the >jumper is NOT set to Cable Select. > >Once you can see both drives, just answer "yes" to installing the >FreeBSD boot loader during installation. If you don't want to >reinstall, read man boot0cfg. > >Welcome and good luck, > >-gayn > >Bristol Systems Inc. >714/532-6776 >www.bristolsystems.com > > > > Gayn, Both drives were seen by the install program. In fact, I had to tell the install to NOT use ad0 because it is PATA drive. I figured that ad0 would be the SATA drive because I had to alter CMOS to make the SATA drive the boot (or "first") drive in the system. I'll definitely be reading up on the boot0cfg manual page. Sorry that it's taken so long to get back. I've very little time to play on my computer at home. I'm really excited about FreeBSD. I've used OpenBSD for a "long" time and am familiar with the BSD's. I wanted to get back in to BSD (I've been using Linux for a while, honestly, I don't like it all that much). I went with FreeBSD because of it's support, especially for OpenOffice (at least it appeared that it would be easier to get OpenOffice on FreeBSD than on OBSD). Thanks for the welcome and the help. Andy