From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 18:13:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADF737BECB for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:13:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@alpha.net.au) Received: from psych (tntwc01-3-201.idx.com.au [203.166.3.201]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA32628; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:13:24 +1000 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000606111130.008ac1d0@mail.alpha.net.au> X-Sender: dannyh@mail.alpha.net.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 11:11:30 +1000 To: Alfred Perlstein From: Danny Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.2.7 -> FreeBSD 3.3 Upgrade (solution) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000605174117.B17973@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3.0.6.32.20000606102953.007b3720@mail.alpha.net.au> <3.0.6.32.20000606100353.008a7c70@mail.alpha.net.au> <3.0.6.32.20000606100353.008a7c70@mail.alpha.net.au> <20000605171457.Y17973@fw.wintelcom.net> <3.0.6.32.20000606102953.007b3720@mail.alpha.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG - When FreeBSD 3.3 first boots up it does a countdown from 10 - you press any key besides the enter key - you type in set root_disk_unit=2 - Then you type boot to conitnue -This will boot up like always - Then you cd /boot/defaults/ -chmod 644 loader.conf - vi loader.conf - Thre is a line like so "#root_disk_unit=0" - In order to get it work I had to uncomment "#root_disk_unit=0" so it becomes like so "root_disk_unit=0". - Then modified the line like so "root_disk_unit=0" to "root_disk_unit=2" - Exit from vi editor - Then typed reboot - Then it worked At 05:41 PM 6/5/00 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* Danny [000605 17:32] wrote: >> - the answer to the first question does work. > >It should, it works for me. Try rootdev=disk2s1a (or disk3s1a) instead > >> - In response to your answer to the second questiion do you really mean >> /boot/default/loader.conf > >no i don't, i meant what i said. > >> If so >> exactly which line do I modify in /boot/default/loader.conf >> "kernel_options" ??? > >you don't modify the defaults file, you create a /boot/loader.conf file >and copy entries from /boot/default/loader.conf into it when you want >to change the defaults. > >-Alfred > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message