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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: boot from 2nd hard disk?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:10:25 -0500
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In article <5itv5e$m9o@usenet88.supernews.com>,
	"Dale Welch" <dwelch@netw.com> writes:
> I set up a dual boot system that works fine.  BSD is on ide hard disk 2.
> But now i want to pull the 1st hard drive out for use in a different
> machine.
>   When i moved the 2nd hard disk to primary i get an unbootable hard disk.
> 
> How do i make hard disk 2 a bootable drive?

What exactly happens when you try to boot it as disk 1?  Is it not booting
at all, or simply failing to mount your various slices?  If the latter,
edit your fstab, changing, for example, wd1* entries to wd0* (or sd0, or
whatever the case may be).

-- 
Conrad Sabatier		http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads