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From: "J. Scott Northcutt" <snorthcutt@celerity.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Disk shuffling woes
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 15:35:11 -0500
Organization: Celerity Systems, Inc.
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Greetings all,
I have recently added a 1 GB drive to my system, making it the "default"
disk (the one where the boot mgr. resides). I have made the other disk
which was formerly a 400 MB DOS partition and a 300 MB BSD partition the
"second" disk. I moved all of the Windows garbage to the 1 GB disk,
freeing the smaller disk for FreeBSD entirely.
Now that the former solo disk is now the disk that the boot manager
jumps to to boot FreeBSD and since I haven't modified anything in the
kernel to say, "bring yourself up from wd1, not wd0", the box now
panics, saying that it can't mount the root file system.
Ok...How do I get the thing to either not come up and look on wd0 or how
do I say, "everything is as I left it but the name is now
different...look on wd1?" I tried '-s' at the 'Boot:' prompt but it
still wound up in the same place and panicking. I also tried to boot
from the install floppy but it kept jumping into the install program,
i.e., I never got a prompt where I could manually mount my partitions.
Which brings me to another question.
Now that I have rid the 700 MB disk of all things Micro$oft, is there
any way that I can give the whole disk to FreeBSD w/o having to nuke all
my data on the existing partition and start from scratch? I could just
start all over, but I REALLY don't want to - all my apps/printers/etc
are finally working like I want and I don't want to go back to square
one.
Any help that could be passed my way would be greatly appreciated.
THANKS!
Best regards,
--Scott Northcutt
--
J. Scott Northcutt -- Hardware Engineer, Digital Video Products
Celerity Systems, Inc. -- Knoxville, TN -- (423) 539-5300, ext. 328
e-mail: snorthcutt@celerity.com (wk) OR snorthcutt@1stresource.com
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