From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 15:21:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from btr0xe.rz.uni-bayreuth.de (btr0xe.rz.uni-bayreuth.de [132.180.15.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B643214FE0 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:21:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a0037@stud.uni-bayreuth.de) Received: from jl2.hnet.de (root@btdial-a-121.dial.uni-bayreuth.de [132.180.246.121]) by btr0xe.rz.uni-bayreuth.de (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA16178 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:21:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from a0037@localhost) by jl2.hnet.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA03606 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:51:09 +0200 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:51:08 +0200 From: Juergen Leising To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: switching boot drive Message-ID: <19990617235108.A2155@jl2.hnet.de> Reply-To: Juergen Leising References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: ; from vagner@vetex.dhis.org on Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 09:17:45PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 09:17:45PM -0700, vagner@vetex.dhis.org wrote: > I recently installed 3.2 on another system and > added the ppo support for the zip drive > now when i try and boot it starts to boot > from da1 which is correct now that the > zip is da0 but i get a message saying > switching to da0s1a and then a message > saying cannot mount root and a reboot > is gonna happen. > > what file do i need to edit so it dont > switch back to da0 on me during boot I faced approximately the same problem and solved it by inserting into /boot/loader.rc the following: set root_disk_unit=1 (assuming your zip keeps the first drive (0) and your root resides on the second one (1) > or how do i make it so the zip is > seen as da2 (prefferred) the latter I don't know. Bye, Juergen. -- ***************************************************************** * Juergen Leising, E-Mail: juergen.leising@stud.uni-bayreuth.de * * http://www.stud.uni-bayreuth.de/~a0037/ * ***************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message