From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 12:27:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00604 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:27:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00591 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.054 #3) id 0zlI45-00005X-00; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:35:57 +0000 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:35:57 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re : kernel uses wrong root device Message-ID: <19981202193557.A334@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19981202134436.A301@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.17i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > As you have two disks, do you have installed booteasy on both drives (or > do you use another boot method ?) ? > With booteasy, you've got a first chice : > F1 : whatever (usually DOS) > .. other partitions > F5 : second disk > then on the second disk another choice : > F1 : BSD > F5 : first disk Ah, I see. As it turns out, I don't need to fix it, I think I was just doing something wrong (never mind). Thanks for replying anyway though. It still seems a bit odd, so if anyone does know why it doesn't do as it's told, I'd like to know. (as for DOS, well the sooner I get rid of that the better. But being a home machine some people will insist on playing games under dos... *sigh*) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message