From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 15:27:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lanshark.lanminds.com (lanshark.lanminds.com [208.25.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1B315616 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@lmi.net) Received: from drtboi.lanminds.com (drtboi.lmi.net [208.25.91.219]) by lanshark.lanminds.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA13405; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:26:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: todd@lmi.net Organization: LMI.net From: Todd Meister To: David Coder Subject: Re: Booting from da0s1e Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-Jul-99 David Coder wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Todd Meister wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to get a hard disk to boot from / mounted on da0s1e, rather than >> the typical da0s1a. I tried putting the line: >> 0:da(0,e)/kernel >> >> in /boot.config, but that did nothing. >> >> I recompiled the kernel, changing >> >> config kernel root on da0 >> >> to >> >> config kernel root on da0s1e >> >> but nothing changed. It still uses 0:da(0,a)/kernel as default. >> >> Is there something very obvious that I'm missing? > > Yes, that /dev/da0s1e mounts by default on /var. There's nothing on that > device that is useful for booting. > > dc I have /var mounted on da1s1e. This came about because the first hard drive was failing, and when I replaced it, I messed up with disklabel, and now the root partition is da0s1e. I thought, from the look of the kernel config file, that it was possible to change the default partition. Is this not the case? -Todd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message