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From: "Freiheit" <richardt@ms1.hinet.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help: Always boot from /dev/sd1a
Date: 14 May 1997 16:00:06 GMT
Organization: DCI HiNet
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Hi,
	I have one IDE hardisk, one ATAPI CDROM, and 2 SCSI
harddisks. My /dev/sd0s1, s2, s3 and /dev/sd1s1, s2 are for Linux. I
installed FreeBSD on /dev/sd0s4 (root partition)
and /dev/sd1s3. 
	I want to boot up the system with typing
1:sd(0,a)/kernl after the boot: prompt.
I learned from somewhere that I should do:
1) remove the remark on the line BIAS...=1 in the file
   /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile.
2) recompile and install the kernel
3) disklabel -B sd0
However, the system just keeps trying to boot from sd1a.
What did I miss?

Please help.
--
Richard Tsai.