From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 22:42:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA05427 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:42:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA05418 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA16792; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:42:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: DOUGLAS MICHAEL JACOBSEN cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel and root In-Reply-To: <3907A2B01E9@cw-f1.umd.umich.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Don't change your last name to `White' or else I'm in trouble. :) On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, DOUGLAS MICHAEL JACOBSEN wrote: > hello, > i have recently installed your current (v2.2) of FreeBSD and am > having problems with kernel every time i have to boot up. freebsd is > located on my one and only scsi drive, therefore being sd0, however > the kernel always tries to set the root device to sd1, i would like > to know how to set the default to sd0 instead of having to type > 1:sd(0,a)kernel everytime i have to reboot. You need to wire down your SCSI devices. See /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT. > also, i spend more time at school then i do at home and would like to > know how to login as root from a non-local port. i am not worried > about the security risk it might cause. thank you. Log in as yourself and use `su'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo