From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 9 20:14:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10590 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 20:14:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from glitnir.cfar.umd.edu (root@glitnir.cfar.umd.edu [128.8.132.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10585 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 20:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arensb@cfar.umd.edu) Received: from cfar.umd.edu (arensb@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (known localhost [127.0.0.1]) by glitnir.cfar.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA23037 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 23:14:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199807100314.XAA23037@glitnir.cfar.umd.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2.2.6 wants to boot from wd1 instead of wd2 Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 23:14:09 -0400 From: Andrew Arensburger Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Executive summary: how do I boot from 1:wd(2,a)/kernel by default?] With any luck, this is a rather simple question (though it doesn't seem to appear in the FAQ). I have two IDE disks. The primary master has one partition, with Windows on it. The secondary master also has one partition, with FreeBSD 2.2.6. When I boot, I go through booteasy's prompts, then get to the "boot: " prompt. At the top of the screen, it says that by default, it'll boot from "0:wd(1,a)kernel" (IIRC), that is, the primary IDE slave. I want it to boot from the secondary master. If I enter "1:wd(2,a)/kernel" at the "boot: " prompt, it comes up just fine, but for obvious reasons, I don't want to have to type that in every time I boot :-( Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy Center for Automation Research arensb@cfar.umd.edu University of Maryland System halted. There is NOTHING you can do. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message