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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!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: Installing FreeBSD with two hard drives Date: 2 Feb 1997 01:02:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5d0p3m$694@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32EA5951.14C5@pgmstr.com> <32f2da35.3710941@news.thecore.com> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34623 sst@thecore.com wrote: > Did you hack the boot code to explicitly list out the 2nd drive for > the root filesystem ? There is a hardcoded value there, I think it's > something along the lines of "wd0a' which designates the 1st drive as > the bootable one. Check that out. You're wrong about this. The boot device is not hardcoded but will merely be computed at startup time. That's why you see the message ``Changing root device to ...''. You're confusing this with the hardcoded idea of wd0 through wd3 which are mapped to the first/second controller's first/second (possible) drive, respectively. Matters are different with SCSI disks, since the SCSI driver by default assigns the unit numbers dynamically. -- 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. ;-)