Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!unix!unix.sri.com!felix From: felix@ai.sri.com (Francois Felix INGRAND) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How to boot by default fom an external disk. (answer and rootdev) Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 91 21:53:59 GMT References: Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM Distribution: comp Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 16 In-reply-to: felix@ai.sri.com's message of 20 Apr 91 23:52:56 GMT Well, thanks to all of those who answered. The easy way is to set the external scsi address to 0. As the internal disk is address 1, the sd0 will then be the external. Another way is to change the address of the internal disk to raise it above the address of the external one. However, I am still curious about knowing how one can change the default rootdev of an existing kernel (I am not even sure this information is stored in the kernel). -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Francois Felix INGRAND SRI International, AIC felix@AI.SRI.COM 333, Ravenswood Avenue (415) 859-5584 MENLO PARK, CA 94025, USA "Read my Lisp... No new syntax" (nil)