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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:04:40 +0000
From:      "Neil Long" <neil.long@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   wd0 versus ad0 on warm boot
Message-ID:  <1001127120440.ZM23007@ratbert.oucs.ox.ac.uk>

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Hello

I can't find where I need to make an edit but here is the problem

I had an old 2.2.8 box which I upgraded via 3.2, 3.4, 4.1.1_RELEASE to
4.2_RELEASE (only real problem was that the old '/' default size is a
teensy bit tight at 4.* but I will rebuild one day...)

All is fine on a cold boot - i.e. all disks are using ad0 as per fstab
but if I reboot (i.e. warm) then '/' gets mounted on wd0s2a rather than
ad0s2a (and top won't run because of it - nlist errors).

I re-wrote the disklabel which has wd to ad as one guess
# /dev/ad0c:
type: ESDI
disk: ad0s2

installworld updated the /boot files (and of course all is well on a
hard boot). There is another partition with a minimal Linux distro on
it and I use the lilo boot manager (which speaks hda, etc).

Any ideas where the vestigal wd0 comes from? Can I still boot Linux as
the non-default if I use a different boot manager? Rarely use Linux but
sometimes I need to, could use a boot floppy I suppose.

Thanks
Neil


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