Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:31:52 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Ian Moore <imoore@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au> Cc: Mailing List Free BSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Changing bootmanager default Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.96.990114123034.21912A-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <369D1F53.E0D44C56@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au>
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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
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