Help: SCO w/ two bootable HDs

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1 total messages Started by Keith Brown Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:16

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Author: Keith Brown
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:16

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Hardware: '386 w/ two 150meg ESDI hard disks, 1 controller.  Originally a 
root and /u.

I installed 3.2.4.1 on the /u disk, as a new installation (unplugged drive 0,
plugged in drive 1 to 0's cables, then loaded the OS).

Now I want to plug the original root drive into the new system (as drive 1),
and mount it.  I tried doing it and crashed the machine, no PANIC, just a
good old DOA when I tried to "mkdev hd 1 0" or walk through the interactive
"mkdev hd" installation.

I reversed the disks again (0=old system, 1=new system) and booted 3.2.0.a.
Although the system came up (barely, since it tried to mountall the former /u
filesystem, failing with the above-mentioned complete halt of the machine.
I had to emergency-boot the machine from floppy and edit out the second drive
in /etc/default/filesys), I still can't mount the second drive.

To summarize:  Two bootable hard disks, neither is able to access the other.

How can I fix this silly thing so one of the OSs can mount the other drive?
I cannot destroy the boot tracks on either disk to accomplish this.

-Keith

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