From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 23:04:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA07387 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA07381 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:04:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA18099; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:04:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:04:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Greg Hormann cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing a hard drive. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Greg Hormann wrote: > > Currently, my FBSD drive is the second hard drive on an IDE bus. I > would like to remove the first drive which would make the FBSD one the > first (and only) drive on the ide bus. I realize that i will need to > change all the "wd1..."'s to "wd0..." in /etc/fstab, and I thought I would > have to change the "config kernel root on" line in the kernel, however it > already read wd0. > > When I tried just changing the /etc/fstab file, the machine found the > kernel, but paniced because it couldn't mount root. BTW, I did change the > drive jumpers too. What did it try to mount? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo