[lug] Trying to get a second hard drive up

[D. Stimits]

BOF wrote:
> 
> D. Stimits wrote:
> 
> >I would guess that you do not want the second drive boot record on the
> >MBR. You should probably point it at a partition boot record now, rather
> >than the boot record of the entire drive. If your /boot/ is hda1, then
> >change it from hdb to hdb1. Run lilo.
> >
> 
> Tried that: didn't work: same error message about /dev/hdb1 not open.
> 
> >Then set your pointer in the BSD boot loader
> >
> 
> The FreeBSD loader is apparently not configurable: when run it detects
> any OS's on the first drive and the presence of other drives. The whole
> thing seems to be automatic.
> 
> So the way I believe it would work is that when this prompt from the
> boot loader comes up
> 
>     F1     FreeBSD
>     F5     Drive 1
> 
> and then I hit the F5 key, LILO comes up and boots Linux.
> 
> The problem is that I cannot write LILO to the boot record on the second
> drive partition. I do not want it to write to the MBR on the first
> partition: it would wipe out the FreeBSD booter.
> 
> >If you set the jumper on the drive to make it a slave, and it is on a
> >new cable to a separate controller, this might be incorrect. To be a
> >slave it must be the second drive on a cable with a master. If you have
> >2 drives and they are on different controllers, neither will be a slave.
> >I think an IDE cd rom drive can work as a master or slave also. Been a
> >long time since I played with IDE though, I'm a bit rusty (scsi is so
> >nice!).
> >
> 
> The first IDE controller has the primary and secondary hard drives on
> it, designated as master and slave with jumpers. The second IDE
> controller has the CD-ROM as master on it, designated with a jumper, and
> a ATAPI ZIP drive, set somehow by the system.

Perhaps the BIOS has a conflicting setting or is trying to force
something. If hdb is there but it can only be found from a running linux
rescue disk, it means the bios itself is likely denying its existence;
linux does not need the bios after initial boot stages, but as far as I
know all boot loaders do need the bios to agree for the initial bootup.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> BOF
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