From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 13 15:32:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20638 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:32:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20631 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:32:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA22126; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:31:52 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:31:52 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Ian Moore cc: Mailing List Free BSD Questions Subject: Re: Changing bootmanager default In-Reply-To: <369D1F53.E0D44C56@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Ian Moore wrote: > 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. Check out: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ49.html Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message