From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 21:31:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19519 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:31:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA19508 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:31:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA01530; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:31:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:31:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Bond, Jeffery" cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Problems mounting root In-Reply-To: <014CB6ADC0BCD0118B1B006097827D5B3D335A@EXCHANGE> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Bond, Jeffery wrote: > Oh, I always talk to myself. Ah, okay. > >At the end of the probe sequence you should either: > >1. Have the line: > >config kernel root on wd2 > > Ahh, I already have this line in my kernel config, but it appears > near the top of the config file, before any of the device stuff. Would this > be the reason that it is getting ignored? Also, will this override the > default boot string, currently '1:wd(1,a)/kernel'? No, it should be picked up. Do you have anything in /boot.config? > I can actually get the thing to boot if I enter 1:wd(2,a)/kernel at > the boot: prompt, but I can not get it to remember this string as the > default. I've tried using nextboot without success. The boot prompt always > gives 1:wd(1,a)/kernel as the default. Okay, if you want to make it the default, drop that string in the file /boot.config. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major