From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 9:11:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.worldy.com (ns1.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63FD837BC93 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:11:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tracker@worldy.com) Received: from worldy.com (ppp155.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.214]) by home.worldy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA09541; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:11:12 -0500 Message-ID: <38D8FE6A.A85859DF@worldy.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:10:02 -0500 From: David Banning Reply-To: tracker@worldy.com Organization: Sky-Tracker of Canada Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bduk@earthlink.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to set Freebsd boot bisk as secondary drive References: <200003220822.AAA25236@arthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm really just guessing, but doesn't the kernel config file say where > to expect root to be? It's compiled into the kernel. It seems the config file you speak of is loader.conf located in /boot/defaults - but I notice that it does not set the boot drive (although it can) - I tried setting it - no go. If the boot drice is compiled into the kernel I don't know how - I have never seen it in the kernel config files or set it before compiling a kernel. > You probably > need to use some command line switches to get an initial boot; Tried -a and -r that only got me a panic and immediate reboot > You sound more knowledgeable than I am. Ha! Thanks for your consideration -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message