From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 2 15:47:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA18524 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 15:47:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA18519 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 15:47:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA01496; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 00:45:24 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199711022345.AAA01496@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Boot manager and switching hard drives In-Reply-To: <199711021855.LAA13758@flatland.dimensional.com> from Gerard Giamberdine at "Nov 2, 97 11:55:27 am" To: gerard@dimensional.com (Gerard Giamberdine) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 00:45:23 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hello Everyone, > > I've recently changed my hard drives around and am having difficulty getting > FreeBSD going again. Old setup: > Primary master 1G: Freebsd > Primary slave 420M: Win3.1 > New setup: > PM 4G: Win95 > Secondary master 1G: Freebsd (unchanged) > Secondary slave 420M: Future Freebsd partition > > How do I create a new boot manager on the 4G, change the one on the 1G, and > then get it to find Freebsd's new location from then on? I've tried various > things with the boot and fixit floppies without success. Fbsdboot'ing from > the 4G results in a can't find root:panic. Thanks for your help! Enter 1:wd(2,a)kernel at the boot: prompt. The "wd(2,a)" tells the kernel, which device to mount as root device. To avoid entering the bootstring each time, you might want to use nextboot(8). Wolfgang