From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 9 06:52:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA09811 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 06:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grazzt.umd.umich.edu (root@grazzt.umd.umich.edu [141.215.69.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA09803 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 06:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cw-f1.umd.umich.edu (cw-f1.umd.umich.edu [141.215.68.2]) by grazzt.umd.umich.edu (8.8.3/8.8.0) with ESMTP id JAA12614 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:52:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CW-F1/SpoolDir by cw-f1.umd.umich.edu (Mercury 1.31); 9 Sep 97 09:46:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from SpoolDir by CW-F1 (Mercury 1.31); 9 Sep 97 09:45:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "DOUGLAS MICHAEL JACOBSEN" Organization: University of Michigan - Dearborn To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:45:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: kernel and root Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <3907A2B01E9@cw-f1.umd.umich.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hello, i have recently installed your current (v2.2) of FreeBSD and am having problems with kernel every time i have to boot up. freebsd is located on my one and only scsi drive, therefore being sd0, however the kernel always tries to set the root device to sd1, i would like to know how to set the default to sd0 instead of having to type 1:sd(0,a)kernel everytime i have to reboot. also, i spend more time at school then i do at home and would like to know how to login as root from a non-local port. i am not worried about the security risk it might cause. thank you. douglas jacobsen