From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 16 02:16:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31540106566C for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:16:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f178.google.com (mail-yw0-f178.google.com [209.85.211.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E26B68FC12 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh8 with SMTP id 8so1592627ywh.3 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:16:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Tqc2nh4QOvHBBiue+d8hdNet+j2ciLNU0m9+XTSrsgY=; b=g5oCwf1EE7Y4iRgIbcbKgbJT6EladxAdZPY4gy8JgnkjqxtBofL7aolwO27hz7HTtL sTal8g5/QmRAjoMf0xEr3VDDitv+20ukCrdwPOid+2nbnH10L7BW0ysAKZaJLXCMVDv6 bmQ46ocrCurZPmqAwd/258sxtxQNUjVXMQMNs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=uS2pTx6xOmBeaICt4ttshEEL3r46xWlqDHJNJRCOOCRMcy4EiqASYNKeG/BfDNVLhT 7+GLf+owtLICe7BtcndYEHYX1BpwMe/q6R0dZ0Yu+upDoCyOixRzUOJKfXZs0yVP2j/f eEIZ6MmIJkohku5Y5NTpA+ut+6xaTO3ZmDQYg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.9.38 with SMTP id m38mr1212789ani.21.1255659394096; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:16:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca> References: <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:16:33 -0600 Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: PJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from wrong disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:16:35 -0000 On 10/15/09, PJ wrote: > While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed > up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a > dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as > ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise... > #df shows we have been booted from ad12 and all partitions are ad12.... > Booting from ad12s1a gives exactly the same results. > So, how can I get ad4s1a to boot from ad4? > I imagine it is something in the boot files... but how to fix that? Probably because ad12's /etc/fstab tell it to mount ad12's filesystems. rewriting mbrs and stuff probably won't help. check your fstab.