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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need boot manager to install on 2nd SCSI?
Date: 27 Jul 1996 22:24:27 GMT
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dim@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (D. Gerasimatos) wrote:

> like bteasy or NT Loader. I installed FreeBSD on sd1a (the empty 
> disk -- 2nd in the chain) and all went well. However, when it was booting
> into FreeBSD it then wanted to change root to sd0a.

Better use a boot manager on all of these disks.

FreeBSD certainly wanted to switch to sd0a since it is in the opinion
that its boot device _is_ sd0 (i.e., it's the BIOS device 0x80).

-- 
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. ;-)