From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 0:37: 2 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 B775137B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:37:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12720 invoked by uid 100); 29 Oct 2000 07:36:54 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14843.54166.514593.518260@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 01:36:54 -0600 (CST) To: Jesse Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting default boot partition In-Reply-To: References: <14843.14493.986631.472285@guru.mired.org> 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: > > 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. > What do you mean by go through ahd change it? Just what I said - you need to find everywhere where it's set to a, and change it to e. > I can't find anywhere I can specify what the boot partition should be. I don't believe it's something you can specify. Therefore, you need to do it in the sources. > > 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. > I ended up simply relabeling e as a and it worked, but I'd like to know > for future reference when I *do* have an a partition. Well, I'd recommend you avoid that situation. If you do get into it, you can just swap the a partition and the "real" boot partition.