Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:26:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Meister <todd@lmi.net> To: David Coder <dacoder@dcoder.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from da0s1e Message-ID: <XFMail.990729152630.todd@lmi.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907291816530.10123-100000@doc.dcoder.com>
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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
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