Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:25:09 +0100 From: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie> To: eT <eT@post.com> Cc: Hackers FreeBSD <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: changing root device to ... Message-ID: <37B284E5.AAC0DFD1@baker.ie> References: <37B1A8C0.26BD96CA@baker.ie> <37B26058.9B6A396F@post.com>
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> > is the system still booting off the IDE disk (if present) ? > > Yes. But not from the SCSI You can try setting the BIOS to boot from the SCSI disk which should do the trick..unless you have a crappy BIOS that doesn't let you do that.. :( > With fdisk I set the partition as bootable on the SCSI disk and it seems to boot it now but it > can't mount the root partition as I can't figure out what device name to use as my root device > in the /etc/fstab. > > I tried all the /dev/sd0* permutations I could find. /dev/sd0a should point to your root partition on the SCSI disk Regards, - Cillian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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