From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 13:41:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35E537C259 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:41:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp1.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.16]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA23571 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:40:35 +0200 (GMT) Received: (qmail 10689 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Mar 2000 14:56:00 -0000 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:55:59 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: David Banning Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to set Freebsd boot bisk as secondary drive Message-ID: <20000322165559.C8384@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <38D8769E.C5BE157@worldy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38D8769E.C5BE157@worldy.com>; from tracker@worldy.com on Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:30:39AM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:30:39AM -0500, David Banning wrote: > Using FreeBSD 3.4.0 I have initially set up FreeBSD as my boot disk > but now I have set DOS as my boot disk - and FreeBSD as my second. I > installed bootinst on both drives. > > When booting from FreeBSD (throught boot manager) on the 2nd drive - I > get config errors because boot wants to see wd0 not wd1. So I reset > up my fstab file, changing the / mount from wd0s1a to wd1a (there is > no wd1s1a in /dev). Start your system, and instead of pressing ENTER at the first stage, press any other key, for instance ESC. Then, when you're shown the boot loader prompt, which in my system is: ok _ change the default root device, to what you want to boot from, and boot. ok set rootdev="/dev/wd1s1a" ok boot After that, you'll probably have to recompile your kernel, or set the root device in your /boot/loader.conf file. - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message