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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 22:10:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Greg Hormann <ghormann@ns.kconline.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Making Kernal mount new /
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970912220857.17774Z-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970910132416.12684F-100000@wawasee.read.indiana.edu>

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On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Greg Hormann wrote:

> 
> After moving hard drives around on my computer, I am having trouble
> getting the kernel to mount /.  It tries to mount /dev/wd1a but needs to
> mount /dev/wd0a.  Where does one make this change?

If you set this line in your kernel config:

config kernel root on wd2

You may have to use the boot floppy to change that appropriately.

Otherwise, if it is after the `automatic reboot in progress' message, you
need to modify /etc/fstab and change all references of wd1 to wd0.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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