From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 16 15:52:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA28405 for current-outgoing; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 15:52:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA28388 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 15:51:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA29843; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:51:36 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA17438; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:51:35 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id AAA04631; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:36:15 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611162336.AAA04631@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: can not change to correct boot device To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:36:14 +0100 (MET) Cc: charnier@xp11.frmug.org (Philippe Charnier) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611161341.OAA00521@xp11.frmug.org> from Philippe Charnier at "Nov 16, 96 02:41:32 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Philippe Charnier wrote: > If I let him boot, it tries 1:sd(1,a)/kernel and fails at > `change root to sd1a'. Entering 1:sd(0,a)/kernel is ok. > > How can I do this in the kernel config file? You can't. You must do it in the bootblocks. I think there's something from Julian around that would let you store such a change automatically in the bootblock, but offhand i don't remember any pointers to documentation for it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)