From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 16 10: 5:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B63C37B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 10:05:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4GH5ME22880; Wed, 16 May 2001 13:05:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:05:22 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Brian Somers Cc: Subject: Re: How to auto-boot from an alternate disk In-Reply-To: <200105161553.f4GFrIb28960@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Message-ID: <20010516130015.D22563-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message