WOOHOO I figured it out. It was my root device.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#Bootloader
boot -a allowed me to chose a different root device. I didn't realize that
was going on but after booting several times I realized there was a line
that said root_device wd1a
thanks to the FAQ maintainer!
On 6/2/06, John Brahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got two drives in a OpenBSD 3.9 amd64 server. one that used to be the
root drive in an old 3.8 system and a new drive that I've installed a
fresh copy of OpenBSD 3.9.
I want to boot up on just one of the drives but for some reason when I put
the second drive in the server it tries to take over the root drive. I've
tried switching the SATA cables between them and changing the boot option
for boot hd0a:/bsd and hd1a:/bsd and I get the same errors.
I attempted to find a way to make the secondary drive not bootable by
booting up on my Official OpenBSD 3.9 CD and running a shell and then
fdisking it, but I didn't find anywhere I could turn the bootable flag off.
Any suggestions on what I can do?
Thanks,
John
