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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!news.delphi.com!BIX.com!arog From: arog@BIX.com (arog on BIX) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Installing to second SCSI drive Date: 15 Aug 94 13:00:27 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation Lines: 37 Message-ID: <arog.776955627@BIX.com> References: <31c115$i8p@news.halcyon.com> <31iq51$sg0@nwfocus.wa.com> <1994Aug2.210751.1139@robkaos.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bix.com robsch@robkaos.ping.de (Robert Schien) writes: >I have a similiar question: >At the moment FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 exists on a IDE drive on my machine. >Now I got a Syqest drive (which is a SCSI type) and installed it there. >Now my question: >How can I remove my IDE partition (I need the drive for something else) >, so that the boot prompt >will still appear from which I can then select the second drive >(hd(1,a)/386bsd)? >Thanks in advance. >Robert I've not worked with IDE drives, so I don't know if they are 'set-up' in cmos or not. If they are, then an experiment that I ran on a whim the other night may well present the answer to this. I noted that both of the st-506 drives on a WD controller were being 'seen' by FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 as it booted. At that instant, I had set the 'cmos' to 'none' for both of the possible drives and was 'booting' from the SCSI at sd0a. I attempted to mount the pcfs and BSD file systems on these st-506 drives and found that, even WITH the cmos set to None, that the drives both mounted without a hitch. The structure of the filesystems on these drives is a 32 meg Novell-Dos 7 partition, a 6 meg BSD (both on wd0) and a 64 meg BSD partition with swap on wd1. ......................................................... Alan Ogden, moderator of 'nos' on BIX arog@BIX.com