From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 10 11:15:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02139 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:15:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02134 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:15:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.25.95]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA03415; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:45:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <367016A6.C802E47D@seattleu.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:44:54 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter.Fogg@worldnet.att.net CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wrong boot default References: <366EA3D9.9707BF68@worldnet.att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can create a /boot.config file with "1:wd(2,a)kernel" in it to boot up properly, but I don't know if that will save your changes. Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu Peter Fogg wrote: > > Good morning all! > > I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE on a second drive in my Win > 95-based computer, the installation is on drive 1, wd2. I subsequently > installed Booteasy on drive 0 so I could optionally boot to Win 95 or > FreeBSD. However, when I choose "drive 2" from Booteasy, the kernel says > that the default boot drive is "1:wd(1,a)kernel" instead of > "1:wd(2,a)kernel"!! By the way, there is no wd1! > > Of course, if I enter "1:wd(2,a)kernel" at the boot prompt things work > fairly well. I say "fairly well" because when I use UserConfig to delete > unneeded devices from the hardware probe process, the program tries to > save the changes it to wd1, which doesn't exist, so changes made are not > saved. > > Could use some help. > > thanks, > > Peter- > Peter.Fogg@worldnet.alt.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message