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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:55:59 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        David Banning <tracker@worldy.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to set Freebsd boot bisk as secondary drive
Message-ID:  <20000322165559.C8384@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <38D8769E.C5BE157@worldy.com>; from tracker@worldy.com on Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:30:39AM -0500
References:  <38D8769E.C5BE157@worldy.com>

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On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:30:39AM -0500, David Banning wrote:

> Using FreeBSD 3.4.0 I have initially set up FreeBSD as my boot disk
> but now I have set DOS as my boot disk - and FreeBSD as my second.  I
> installed bootinst on both drives.
>
> When booting from FreeBSD (throught boot manager) on the 2nd drive - I
> get config errors because boot wants to see wd0 not wd1.  So I reset
> up my fstab file, changing the / mount from wd0s1a to wd1a (there is
> no wd1s1a in /dev).

Start your system, and instead of pressing ENTER at the first stage,
press any other key, for instance ESC.  Then, when you're shown the boot
loader prompt, which in my system is:

	ok _

change the default root device, to what you want to boot from, and boot.

	ok set rootdev="/dev/wd1s1a"
	ok boot

After that, you'll probably have to recompile your kernel, or set the
root device in your /boot/loader.conf file.

- Giorgos Keramidas


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