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Date:      Tue, 06 Jun 2000 11:11:30 +1000
From:      Danny <dannyh@alpha.net.au>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD2.2.7 -> FreeBSD 3.3 Upgrade (solution)
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20000606111130.008ac1d0@mail.alpha.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000605174117.B17973@fw.wintelcom.net>
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- 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 <dannyh@alpha.net.au> [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
>



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