From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 14:04:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB2916A4D7 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:04:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.hispeed.ch (mxout.hispeed.ch [62.2.95.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A5F43D2F for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:04:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hampi@rootshell.be) Received: from gicco.homeip.net (217-162-159-231.dclient.hispeed.ch [217.162.159.231])i1DM4ee9024354 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:04:40 +0100 Received: from localhost.here (idefix@gicco.homeip.net [127.0.0.1]) by gicco.homeip.net (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1DM4bjC000724; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:04:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hampi@rootshell.be) Received: (from idefix@localhost) by localhost.here (8.12.8p2/8.12.8/Submit) id i1DM4b1V000723; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:04:37 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.here: idefix set sender to hampi@rootshell.be using -f Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:04:37 +0100 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040213220437.GA558@gicco.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, adams@techweavers.net References: <20040212164126.1707443D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040212164126.1707443D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: adams@techweavers.net Subject: Re: Changing Boot Location X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:04:45 -0000 On Feb 12 at 09:42, Adam Seniuk spoke: > I have some Desktop archtechture pc's that is running my servers. > > I went out and got dell 1650's and the dell servers run there IDE chain on > the secondary channel. > So my installs which are based on the primary IDE channel do not boot up in > the dell. > > How do I change the boot from ad0 to ad2? Hello Adam Seniuk, first you need to adjust the entries in /etc/fstab. Boot a rescue CD (FreeBSD CD #2) and mount /dev/ad2s1a (or ad2s{2,3,4}a) on /mnt and edit /mnt/etc/fstab. If there are no disks ad0 and ad1 you must tell the BIOS to boot drive E. If there are disks ad0 and ad1 you might install the boot manager on ad0 and ad1 with boot0cfg. This allows you to jump via ad0 and ad1 to ad2 during boot. But depending what the MBRs of ad0 and ad1 already contain (other boot managers?) this may not be what you want. > Adam Seniuk > adams@techweavers.net > --------------------------------------------- > System Administrator | > Server Administrator || > Database Administrator || > Website Administrator || > -------------------------------------------- > Techweavers Inc. > www.techweavers.net > "Your Website Solution" You are a website administrator? Maybe you have write access on a web server? Why not put these 9 lines on a web page and put the single URL here instead? -Hanspeter