From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 3 12:53:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24601 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:53:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24317 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:51:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA10986; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:50:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:50:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Christoph Sold cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BootEasy does not boot from the right disk (2.2.5-RELEASE) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Christoph Sold wrote: > Done. Works like it should. Now do you have some pointers about the > BootEasy bootmanger source? I'd really like to fix this once and for all, > since a lot of people stumble across that pitfall. The source (in assembler) is in tools/src on the FTP site or CDROM. It's in the bteasy* archive. > > >Move the disk to the primary controller. If you don't want to do that, > >you're going to get the obligatory ``can't mount root''. > > Must have something to do with the shortcomings of good ol' PC achitecture. > > >If you really really want to have the disks split, then follow these > >instructions: > > > >1. Have the line: > >config kernel root on wd2 > > Would this prevent booting this kernel from wd0? No, I don't think so. I haven't experimented with that line very much. > >in your kernel config, > >OR: > > > >2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the > >original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other > >parameters unchanged). > > Well, although this should work, it would prevent me to ever move anything > to wd(1,a), wouldn't it? wd1 == second IDE disk in system to the boot BIOS. If you decide to ever add a disk to the first controller, then you would need a rebuild. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message