From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 11 13:16:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01124 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 13:16:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01046 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 13:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.02 #1) id 0zHXSQ-0001O7-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:58:06 +0100 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:58:06 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Default boot partition Message-ID: <19980911185806.A5315@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having a bit of trouble getting FreeBSD to load the kernel from the right disk slice. Basically, wd0 is as follows wd0s1 : DOS partition wd0s2 : DOS Extended partition wd0s3 : FreeBSD root fs (most stuff is on wd2). When I choose to boot FreeBSD (I use os-bs as the boot manager) the default boot is 0:wd(0,a)kernel Sure, typing 0:wd(0,c)kernel works fine, but how do I make this the default? Creating /boot.config on wd0s3 doesn't help, presumably since it will look for boot.config on wd0s1, or something. So what I have done wrong? I'm sure it used to work in a similar way so no doubt I've broken something. (fwiw, it worked on 2.2.5-release, but not on -current. I doubt it's been broken since then, more likely I've broken something.) -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message