Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:47:36 -0500 (EST) From: Archive Service <archive@in-design.com> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@faf.disney.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Changing boot drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970219094623.20989A-100000@nero.in-design.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970214162702.25126A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote: Question along the same lines. How can I blow away the Freebsd OS loader, and install system commander instead? What to do to get rid of this loader. MBR? > > > On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > > > > > > > > I installed FreeBSD 2.1.6 on the second drive in my machine (at the time > > > it was called wd1), but now I moved it to wd2 and my CDROM to wd1. It now > > > sees the CDROM, but how do I change it so that when I boot up, it tries > > > to mount root from wd2a, instead of wd1a. It panics when it tries to mount > > > wd1a. I can at the boot: prompt type '1:wd(2,a)/kernel' but I would like > > > not to have to do that if possible. > > > > Rebuild your kernel and modify the 'kernel root on ...' line as > > appropriate. > > You'll also have to change /etc/fstab. It would be much easier for you if > you just rename your disk back to wd1. To do that, remove the wd1 line > from the kernel config file (i.e. comment it out) and replace the '2' on > the wd2 line with a '1'. This would make your disk be called wd1 again. > The CD is not called wd1 but wcd0, so they will not collide. > > > > > Doug White | University of Oregon > > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > > Nadav >
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