Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:23:08 +0100 From: John Murphy <bigotfo@bigfoot.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need MBR/boot to use da0 instead of da1 Message-ID: <DoO9OWaYI5oX=LFKxaxsTbCnDzIV@4ax.com>
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Mike Nicholas wrote:
>Hey all-
>I have 2 SCSI disks on one adaptec SCSI card on my 4.1 Release version =
BSD
>box. I screwed up my install and accidentally put the MBR on the second
>disk. I used the FreeBSD boot manager (booteasy-- ohh yeahh). My =
kernel is
>on the first disk on the first slice and when the boot loader comes up =
it
>defaults to 1:da(1,a)/kernel
>When I specify 0:da(0,a)/kernel
>I get it to boot up fine. Unfortunately this is going to be located
>remotely and I need it to be able to boot correctly without =
intervention.
>
>I have tried including
> rootdev=3D"disk0s1a"
>in my /boot/loader.conf file and that doesn't seem to make any =
difference.
<disclaimer>
I've seen answers to similar questions which seem to suggest that:
</disclaimer>
curdev=3D"disk0s1a" may be what you want.
HTH
John.
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