From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 13 14:35:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13889 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:35:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au (mail.hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au [150.101.12.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13878 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:35:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imoore@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au) Received: from hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au ([150.101.69.17]) by mail.hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA01854 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:04:19 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <369D1F53.E0D44C56@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:03:56 +1030 From: Ian Moore X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mailing List Free BSD Questions Subject: Changing bootmanager default Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a question about booting FreeBSD on my computer. Is it possible to get FreeBSD to boot from a second IDE drive by default? I have 2 IDE drives, one is wd0 at /dev/wdc0 drive 0, the second is /dev/wd2 at /dev/wdc1 drive 0. wd0 has a DOS partition with Windows 95, wd2 has 2 partitions, the first is FreeBSD and the second is FAT32. When I boot to bsd, I have to manually specify 1:wd(2,a)kernel at the boot: prompt, otherwise, when bsd attempts to mount /, I get a 'Panic! Can't find root' message, because it always goes to wd1s1a by default. I tried setting the kernel line: config kernel root on wdxxxxxx to various settings such as wd2s1a, but still it tries to boot from wd1s1a, rather than wd2s1a. Thanks, -- Ian Moore imoore@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message