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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need boot manager to install on 2nd SCSI? Date: 27 Jul 1996 22:24:27 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4te4ur$2ts@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4t0jkf$esm@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E dim@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (D. Gerasimatos) wrote: > like bteasy or NT Loader. I installed FreeBSD on sd1a (the empty > disk -- 2nd in the chain) and all went well. However, when it was booting > into FreeBSD it then wanted to change root to sd0a. Better use a boot manager on all of these disks. FreeBSD certainly wanted to switch to sd0a since it is in the opinion that its boot device _is_ sd0 (i.e., it's the BIOS device 0x80). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)