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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 on 2nd Hard Disk
Date: 20 Dec 1994 18:20:34 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <3coem1$sup@gate.sinica.edu.tw>,
 <ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>	I tried to install the FreeBSD 2.0 on my 2nd IDE hard disk (wd1).
>But as it finished the 1st floppy and reboot, it failed to find the kernel.
>It still stuck to wd(0,a)/kernel. I had to key in wd(1,a)/kernel to 
>help it find its kernel.
>
>	Is there any workaround to make it boot from wd(1,a)/kernel 
>automatically ? It is somehow inconvenient.

Yes, you must modify the boot-blocks and re-install them, or use a
boot-manager and have it point to the second hard-drive, but I think the
boot-blocks still need to be modified.



Nate
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