From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 8 09:10:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA08644 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 09:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hfdmail1.imagine.com (hfdmail1.imagine.com [204.249.166.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA08631 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 09:10:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluehub1.imagine.com (204.249.166.22) by hfdmail1.imagine.com with ESMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.1.1); Sun, 8 Sep 1996 12:22:44 -0400 From: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" To: "FreeBSD questions" Subject: Problems with bootstrap Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 12:06:51 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1369937132-86334334@hfdmail1.imagine.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I recently installed my FreeBSD 2.1.5 system on a new hard drive. From the old hard drive, the default boot device was wd(0). Now the default boot device is fd(43), etc. What's worse is that a boot floppy for my machine constantly causes a spontaneous reboot and hence cannot be used. I am forced to type wd(0,a)/kernel each time I want to boot. Is there a way to alter the default boot device? I have installed OS-BS 20b8 as my boot manager. Also, is the problem I've been having with the boot floppy typical? Is there a way to create a new floppy image for my machine that won't cause the spontaneous reboot? I've tried both boot.flp floppies for 2.1.5 available at FreeBSD, Inc. I have also found that the boot floppy from my 2.1.0 system does not recognize my IDE CDROM drive, but my recompiled kernel does. Can I do everything above for a 2.1.5 boot floppy with installation tools that has an image of my recompiled kernel? I want this for situations when I have to reinstall my system. It seems that I should be able to do this. After all, someone at FreeBSD did. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks for all your help. Jeffrey M. Metcalf 200 Ridgefield Drive Middletown, CT 06457 metcalf@imagine.com