Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 00:13:41 +1100 From: bulldog@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Greg Holloway) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: How to change root device? Message-ID: <199502271313.AAA13655@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
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Greetings.. I'm in the process of changing from Linux to FreeBSD, but I've ran into a few problems with my SCSI hard disk. I've got a Micropolis 2110, a 1.0gb 3.5" with around 1800 or so cylinders. I can't, for the life of me, get the FreeBSD boot manager to work. The menu comes up but when I press the key for FreeBSD partition, it just displays the menu again (Linux would boot up okay through lilo). Anyway, that's not a major drama -- I don't mind booting off floppy... BUT, how do I make the floppy bootdisk mount /dev/sd0a as the root device? Is there any way I can do this without recompiling the kernel? Thanks for any assistance! Regards Greg H.
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