escape to loader prompt, ...to boot 2nd disk

S

sidney6

so I press 6

unload kernel

boot /boot/kernel
(no subdir, that's it)

but how do I tell it to boot the 2nd drive?

drive 1: sata ad10 (was ad4 on prior install, strange)
drive 2: ide ad1

can you delineate the boot path like
boot /dev/ad1sX/boot/kernel?

Thanks,
Sid
 
You need to stop the loading before that. It needs to be stopped at the boot2 stage. As soon as the "boot:" message appears hit any key. This will give you a prompt like this:
Code: 
>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:

From there you should be able to boot a second harddisk.

See boot(8).
 
You can also do it in the loader prompt, which gives you a more interactive experience. Use lsdev to show disks, and select the a partition of the disk you want to boot with "set currdev".

Code: 
unload
lsdev
set currdev=disk1s1a
boot

There is also a readconf or read-conf command. This probably should be used before the boot command, but I'm not sure about that.
 
But if you're going to be doing it often, you're better off installing boot0 (FreeBSD's boot manager). See boot0cfg(8).
 
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