Gayn Winters wrote:
Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why do you think it's not safe to add hard drives?
It doesn't seem "safe" if Windows blows away the multiboot MBR that
FreeBSD so carefully made! Windows overwriting the MBR seems to be the
reason people recommend loading Windows before loading FreeBSD, which I
do. I just never realized that this problem would come back to bite me
when I added another disk drive.
I know of know reason why it should. I've added disks half a dozen
times without blowing away any MBRs. Even the Windows blowing away the
MBR is an annoyance, not a disaster since it is easy to rewrite.
Whatever pickle you find yourself in seems to have to do with more than
just adding a disk or Windows killing your MBR.
I need to be able to operate on my clients' disks. Sometimes I need a
tool that runs under Windows, and other times I need a tool that runs
under FBSD. This doesn't permit adding an OS to their disks.
I don't really understand what you're saying here; sorry. Dual boot
machines are really common (I have three here) and despite adding disks
to each of them at some point in their lives, I've never ended up with
anything going wrong.
A
bootable external USB drive may be the ideal "Fixit" drive ... Of
course, I'd rather figure out how not to have the problem at all! It
would be nice if FreeBSD could write out whatever changes to the MBR and
the partition/slice tables that the new hardware required so that
Windows didn't feel obligated to "fix" things.
FreeBSD can do that. I'm not denying that you're in a pickle, but that
is not a necessary consequence of adding a disk.
--Alex
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