Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 00:45:23 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE> To: gerard@dimensional.com (Gerard Giamberdine) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot manager and switching hard drives Message-ID: <199711022345.AAA01496@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <199711021855.LAA13758@flatland.dimensional.com> from Gerard Giamberdine at "Nov 2, 97 11:55:27 am"
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> > 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
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