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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:17:31 +0200
From:      Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>
To:        Al Goldstein <al@sense-gold-134.oz.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding harddisk
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000620111323.00a922d0@imap.rz.uni-ulm.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006192013470.12245-100000@sense-gold-134.oz .net>
References:  <394EB5B2.B28F899F@gmx.de>

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Hi Al,

>I forgot to mention, Siegbert, that if I try booting these disks from ide-2,
>which my bios allows, the boot will start out but ultimately fails, because
>the root partition won't mount. Maybe the OS would have to be fooled with
>phoney disk number.............Al,

Thatīs because your disk partition, where FBSD is expected to boot from, 
has changed from ad0s?? to ad1s??. You should be able to manually change 
this, when your boot process stops.
Anyone out there, who knows the place this is hard coded, to change it 
permanently?

Ciao
Siegbert



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