FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot
Polytropon
freebsd at edvax.de
Thu Jun 21 22:07:32 UTC 2012
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:59:19 -0700 (PDT), leeoliveshackelford at 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 ^ad" or "dmesg | grep ^da")
for the drive designation and issue the command yourself. If
everything works, you can add an entry to /etc/fstab to make
it mount on startup, e. g.
# device target type options d p
# -------- ---------- ---- --------- - -
/dev/ad1s1 /xp/system ntfs ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/ad1s2 /xp/data ntfs ro,noauto 0 0
It might be worth applying other options like -M (mask) to have
the missing attributes and "misinterpretation as executables"
of NTFS file systems corrects. See the manual for details.
> It does not appear in the fstab file.
This file is not generated automatically. It's an entirely
"user serviceable" part of the OS.
> I attempted to mount it manually using the mount command, without
> success, just to see if any of the data files could be read.
Can you show the mount command? I think it will be something
like
# mount_ntfs -o ro /dev/ad1s1 /mnt
If you need write access, ntfs3g / FUSE would be a good tool.
Also see the port "ntfsprogs" which contains useful tools for
dealing with NTFS.
> I ran fsidk -B on the zeroeth sector of the second hard drive, but
> that did not seem to help.
You need to apply boot0cfg to install the initial boot blocks.
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Polytropon
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