Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:43:17 +0800 From: Kev <tech@geo.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: How do I access my root partition? Message-ID: <99110812210602.03756@tech.geo.net.au>
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I have installed FreeBSD 3 times now, and am becoming increasingly frustrated by the install programme, namely the fdisk part. I have 3 hard drives in my machine, disk1 is Win98, disk2 is linux, and I wish to install FreeBSD on the third. I cannot for the life of me seem to successfully write the boot manager to my primary drive. This is what I wish to do: 1) Create a BDS partition and slice on disk3 2) Write the boot manager to disk1 3) Continue with the install process 4) Boot from disk1, and be able to select any one of these OS's The problem is that the booter refuses to look at anything but disk1 and continually panicks when it can't find a root partition on disk1 when I want it to look on disk3!!! Is there a way that I can edit the /boot/default/loader.conf file from the spartan command line? Please HELP my hair is getting thin! Regards, Kev. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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