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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...


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