Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:04:25 +0000 From: David Banning <tracker@worldy.com> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to set Freebsd boot bisk as secondary drive Message-ID: <38D96D99.2781E494@worldy.com> References: <38D8769E.C5BE157@worldy.com> <20000322165559.C8384@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > 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. In the end - it turned out my dev's were missing - once I MAKEDEV'ed em all was fine - Thanks... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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