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> I spent one rather painful evening with this
> problem, before
> sending off an email, as you have done, and finding
> out that
> the FreeBSD kernel was compiled in such a way that
> it would only
> boot off the primary master drive.. You had to
> install it, recompile
> the kernel, then move it to where-ever you wanted.

someone should add this to the freebsd handbook :) 

thanks for the reply. it saved me a lot of time.

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