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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 on 2nd Hard Disk Date: 20 Dec 1994 18:20:34 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3d779i$h4p@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <3coem1$sup@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <3coem1$sup@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, <ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > I tried to install the FreeBSD 2.0 on my 2nd IDE hard disk (wd1). >But as it finished the 1st floppy and reboot, it failed to find the kernel. >It still stuck to wd(0,a)/kernel. I had to key in wd(1,a)/kernel to >help it find its kernel. > > Is there any workaround to make it boot from wd(1,a)/kernel >automatically ? It is somehow inconvenient. Yes, you must modify the boot-blocks and re-install them, or use a boot-manager and have it point to the second hard-drive, but I think the boot-blocks still need to be modified. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Unemployed, looking for permanant work in home #: (406) 586-0579 | CS/EE field.