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vytalelementz

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From: West Palm Beach, FL, USA

Registered: 2007-04-23

Posts: 99

Multiple hard disks different os's...

Hey you guys,

I got a little issue. I'm sure it requires a somewhat simple solution but I tried to google and do more research on my issue and I have found nothing. It's probably because I'm not using the right keywords . Anyways, I installed arch on my main hd, it is a sata drive, and I have installed freeBSD on another hd, an ide drive. When I try to boot arch with both hd's plugged in I get a kernel panic error after init tries to run. This happens even if my bios is set to have the arch hd as the main priority for booting. When I manually unplug the freebsd hd from the motherboard, I can boot arch successfully. Now when I have both plugged in again and I have the hd with freeBSD as a priority for booting, it boots successfully. I was wondering if there is a way to just switch from one hd to another on my bios without having to manually disconnect one hd in order for arch to boot properly. I'm guessing there's a certain configuration on arch's side that I can modify to ignore the other hd when booting. If the full panic error is needed, let me know and I'll reply with the info. Thanks in advance.

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Best Regards,

The Vytalone

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Multiple hard disks different os's...

your gonna need to reconfigure your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf check out
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … mkinitcpio

in the hooks section only put in the hook for your arch drive

I installed arch on my main hd, it is a sata drive

so only have sata in hooks
then either
pacman -S kernel**   <**whichever kernel you run
or
mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel**.img   <**kernel you run

my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

MODULES=" sata_via ext3"

HOOKS="base udev sata "

the hooks define which drive gets sda or sdb 
as arch  recognizes ide as sda now
unless you tell it otherwise