From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 22: 5:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.worldy.com (ns1.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6490237B557 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:05:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tracker@worldy.com) Received: from tracker (ppp077.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.107]) by home.worldy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA25236; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:05:34 -0500 Message-ID: <38D96D99.2781E494@worldy.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:04:25 +0000 From: David Banning Organization: SKy-Tracker of Canada Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to set Freebsd boot bisk as secondary drive References: <38D8769E.C5BE157@worldy.com> <20000322165559.C8384@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > 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. In the end - it turned out my dev's were missing - once I MAKEDEV'ed em all was fine - Thanks... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message