FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot

2012-06-21 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good morning, FreeBSD enthusiasts. On my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation, I had one hard drive. I partitioned it with two slices, the first one for FreeBSD 8.2 with its native file system, and the second one for a future re-installation of Windows XP, to be formatted with NTFS file system.

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot

2012-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 09:59:19AM -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: You need to put the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks. Use bootcfg. jerry Good morning, FreeBSD enthusiasts. On my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation, I had one hard drive. I partitioned it with two

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot

2012-06-21 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:59:19 -0700 (PDT), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Although the FreeBSD operating system seems to see the second hard drive, it does not mount it upon startup. FreeBSD won't mount anything until explicitely told so. Check the output of dmesg (e. g. dmesg | grep