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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with BootMgr
Date: 22 Apr 1997 17:07:32 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <335BFF4A.41C67EA6@on-line.de>,
	Torri Mahncke <torri@on-line.de> writes:
> 
> I wanted to move my FreeBSD from two old scsi disks 
> (together 1.5 GB) to one new one (2 GB). 
> 
> The boot manager is installed in the MBR of
> another disk (500 MB), which contains mainly
> some DOS stuff.
> 
> Now everything seems to work fine if I tell my box 
> explicitely where to look for the new kernel 
> (by typing "sd(3,a)/kernel" during boot up procedure)
> and if I don't remove the old disks from my 
> machine.
> 
> - How can I prevent the boot manager from looking
>   for the old hard disks ?
> - How can I tell the boot manager which is 
>   the default disk for FreeBSD ?
> 
> Any advices ?

man nextboot

> Thanks in advance,
> Torri

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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