Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 16:53:23 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bjj@sequent.com, dgy@rtd.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot from sd1? Message-ID: <199512310553.QAA19389@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Question: I have wd0, sd0, sd1, and I boot from sd0 (from before I had >the wd0 drive). When I was running 2.0.5, I patched the boot code to >default to hd1 so that after getting the secondary boot block off of >wd0, it would actually boot from sd0. After I installed 2.1.0, I made >the same change. Now, however, after successfully booting from sd0, >the kernel panics because it isn't pointing at sd0a as the root device. >What did I miss? It should work. The hard part is getting the kernel started. I've often recovered from a wrong root device by booting with -d to run ddb early (with a kernel compiled with options DDB of course) and editing `bootdev'. Bruce
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