From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 10 03:17:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA16905 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 03:17:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA16900 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 03:17:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id DAA19851 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 03:17:50 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA17270; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:46:55 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA07205; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:46:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id LAA01269; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:45:23 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603101045.LAA01269@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Booting. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:45:23 +0100 (MET) Cc: adf@fl.net.au (Andrew Foster) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960310232002.009e8f9c@mail.fl.net.au> from "Andrew Foster" at Mar 10, 96 01:20:02 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andrew Foster wrote: I've just added an IDE drive to a previously all SCSI system, and I need to > have it boot to sd0a every time. Typing : > > hd(1,a)/kernel > > At the boot prompt works, but this isn't automated. Could someone tell me > how to change this to become the default. Have a look at Bruce Evans' message with the subject: booting from sd5 when wd3 is also installed ...as posted half an hour before your mail (to freebsd-current though). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)