From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 21 23:49:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25B316A41F for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:49:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from modelt20@canada.com) Received: from n016.sc0.cp.net (sp0116.sc0.cp.net [64.97.136.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD9E43D45 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:49:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from modelt20@canada.com) Received: from smtp.sc0.cp.net (64.97.131.2) by n016.sc0.cp.net (7.0.038) (authenticated as modelt20@canada.com) id 42FB348400157F4D for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:49:49 +0000 Received: from [24.208.85.39] by mail.canada.com with HTTP; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: modelt20@canada.com X-Sent-From: modelt20@canada.com Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:49:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Web Mail 6.1.9-3.7_0 Message-Id: <20050821234949.7871.fh038.wm@smtp.sc0.cp.net> Subject: reassigning boot drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:49:50 -0000 Hello All: When my computer was assembled, the CDROM was attached as master on the first (primary) IDE channel, and the hard drive was attached as master on the second (secondary) IDE channel. It has now become desirable for me to rearrange my drives, but I have accumulated a lot of configurations and settings on my hard disk, so reinstalling is not attractive. Has anyone tried reassigning the boot disk from ad1 to ad0? What pitfalls are there? Thanks in advance. Harold