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.

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

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