Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:05:22 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to auto-boot from an alternate disk Message-ID: <20010516130015.D22563-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <200105161553.f4GFrIb28960@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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Today Brian Somers wrote:
> Which causes things to merrily skip across my IDE disks 'till it
> finds the first SCSI disk, loads /boot/loader from there, finds my
> kernel and then drops into a dumb ``manual mount'' prompt that makes
> me say ``ufs:/dev/da0s1a''.
>
> What I'd *REALLY* like is some way to just say ``default to
> 3:da(0,a)/boot/loader''.
>
> Any suggestions ?
I worked around a similar situation by installing OS-BS (from
/tools on the release CDs) on the IDE and making the SCSI drive
the default to boot. Not very elegant but it worked until I was
able to pawn the IDE drive off to a windows weenie. :)
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