Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:16:32 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from alternate disk in sparc64 Message-ID: <p06002026bbf4394fce2d@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20031203154426.I69957@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <p06002022bbf2bed61931@[128.113.24.47]> <20031203154426.I69957@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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At 3:50 PM -0800 12/3/03, Doug White wrote: >On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > I now have two drives in my Ultra-10, and wanted to boot off >> the second drive. I got to the open-firmware prompt. Typing > > "boot disk0" boots up off the first disk, with the messages: > >The OpenFirmware (or openprom) boot command just boots loader. >Loader actually loads the kernel. They can load from different >locations, as you found. Normally in FreeBSD, you will not be >changing things from OFW, unless you want to boot off a CD. >If you are just booting a kernel from another disk, you can >just repoint loader using currdev. Just to be complete, I should mention that what I had done was taken the one disk that had been the only disk, moved that to be the slave disk and added a new disk as the master ATA disk. I then installed 5.1 onto the new "disk0". So I know the "new disk1" used to work as the old disk0, but it is true that the disk was built and had always run as disk0 before I added the second disk to the machine. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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