From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 6 10:24:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE9A37BEBB for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:24:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02342; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:24:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200003061824.NAA02342@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:24:30 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Liotta, Bob" Subject: RE: Moving the boot device. Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Mar-00 Liotta, Bob wrote: > > I currently have a system that looks as follows: > > wd0 Windows 95 > wd1 FreeBSD. > > I would like to remove the wd0 device. I know that there is issues with > booting. The system > will still look for wd1 as the boot device and have trouble mounting it. I > am aware of the /etc/fstab table. > Changing the values there does not fix the problem. This looks like > something that is stored on the > disk. Any help would be appreciated. What version of BSD? If 3.x, you can set bootdev in the loader to get the machine up and running ('set bootdev=disk0s1a' will probably work). Then for a permament fix, recompile your kernel, updating the 'config kernel on wd1' line to say 'config kernel on wd0'. > Bob -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message