From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 28 13:35:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F57537B4D7 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 36884 invoked by uid 100); 28 Oct 2000 20:35:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14843.14493.986631.472285@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:35:41 -0500 (CDT) To: Jesse Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting default boot partition In-Reply-To: <73243859@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jesse writes: > Hi, > Anyone know how I can change my default boot partion to ad0e? Yes - go through the entire boot sequence and change all the places where it assumes that the boot partition is a to be e. > Currently my system appears to only make it to second stage bootloader and > tries to startup with > 0:ad(0,a)/kernel > I don't have an 'a' partition though. I can boot by typing > 0:ad(0,e)/kernel but obviously that's no good for unattended reboots. > > So, back to the original question. How can I c hange the default boot > partition? See the above. Since you don't have an an a partition, it's probably easier to use disklabel to add an a partition that's a copy of the e partition, and then use the (new) a partition. That's what I wound up doing, anyway.