From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 20 23: 6:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B4F37BA0D for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:06:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0424.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.193.169]) by eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA10801; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:05:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00634; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:04:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:03:30 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Daniel Mahoney, Systems Admin" Cc: Siegbert Baude , Al Goldstein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding harddisk Message-ID: <20000620230330.D469@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000620111323.00a922d0@imap.rz.uni-ulm.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from danm@firestorm2000.com on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 05:34:14AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 05:34:14AM -0400, Daniel Mahoney, Systems Admin wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Siegbert Baude wrote: > > > Hi Al, > > > > >I forgot to mention, Siegbert, that if I try booting these disks from ide-2, > > >which my bios allows, the boot will start out but ultimately fails, because > > >the root partition won't mount. Maybe the OS would have to be fooled with > > >phoney disk number.............Al, > > > > Thatīs because your disk partition, where FBSD is expected to boot from, > > has changed from ad0s?? to ad1s??. You should be able to manually change > > this, when your boot process stops. > > Anyone out there, who knows the place this is hard coded, to change it > > permanently? > > Hope you know how to use vi. /etc/fstab. You're gonna want to boot into > the installer, and use a fixit floppy, mount your root partition from > there, and edit the fstab file. Don't remember exactly how I did this > when I did it, but that was the basic procedure in my case. Got to get it sooner than that during boot. You need to specify the device in /boot/loader.conf. Copy the defaults from /boot/defaults/loader.conf, #root_disk_unit="0" # Force the root disk unit number #rootdev="disk1s1a" # Set the root filesystem Modify them, and put it in the /boot/loader.conf. Do not edit /boot/defaults/loader.conf. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message