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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:46:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@faf.disney.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing boot drives
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970213154602.6915F-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <9702131121.ZM1067@snoopy.faf.disney.com>

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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.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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