From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 27 05:14:57 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA23106 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 05:14:57 -0800 Received: from yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (root@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.9.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA23100 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 05:14:55 -0800 Received: from ([203.3.125.100]) by yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (8.6.4/8.6.4) with SMTP id AAA13655 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 00:13:41 +1100 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 00:13:41 +1100 Message-Id: <199502271313.AAA13655@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> X-Sender: bulldog@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: bulldog@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Greg Holloway) Subject: How to change root device? X-Mailer: Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.