From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 4 19:59:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17984 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:59:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stratos.net ([207.86.133.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17908 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:59:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drifter@stratos.net) Received: from stratos.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stratos.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01159; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:16:16 GMT Message-Id: <199803041616.QAA01159@stratos.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Gary Kline cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (fquestions) Subject: Re: setting boot ``unit'' to 1 from 0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:59:27 PST." <199802201959.LAA02137@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 16:16:16 +0000 From: drifter Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Kline wrote... > > On my new platform, I've got FBSD rooted on disk 1, not 0. > But the boot prompt is > > sd(0, a) > > which continually dies and tried to reboot. What file to > I change to have the target `unit' get set to a 1? > > By hand: sd(1, a) > > works just fine. There's a file in the / directory called boot.config. Edit this file and put "sd(1,a)kernel", if that is your target disk. This file just stores the default boot parameters that you would normally have to type at the boot: prompt. On my system, I boot off a floppy (My system is also on disk 1, but it's a SCSI and my first hard disk is IDE), so I modified the floppy's /boot.config file to read "1:sd(0,a)kernel" -- which works fine for me. -- drifter@stratos.nospam.net (remove nospam to send) "Ever notice that in every commercial about the Internet, advertising geniuses can't resist having a bunch of kids staring into a monitor, awe- struck, looking at a whale jumping out of the ocean? Or is it just me?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message