From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 4 08:50:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA00576 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 May 1997 08:50:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA00569 for ; Sun, 4 May 1997 08:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA21992; Sun, 4 May 1997 17:50:39 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02124; Sun, 4 May 1997 17:35:02 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970504173502.DZ23359@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 17:35:02 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, john@o-farrell.com Subject: Re: Installing FBSD on a second harddisk. References: <19970504094140.07712@pavilion.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970504094140.07712@pavilion.net>; from Josef Karthauser on May 4, 1997 09:41:40 +0100 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Redirected to -questions.) As Josef Karthauser wrote: > I've noticed in the kernel config that there is a: > kernel boot wd0 > line, but my primary drive is sd0 so I'm confused. This is irrelevant. Unless you boot with -r, the root device will be updated to the boot device. > What's the obvious thing that I'm missing? Enter 1:sd(0,a)/kernel at the boot prompt. RTFM nextboot(8), this might help you. -- 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. ;-)