From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 5 17:55:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26408 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:55:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from totalrecall.filez.com (totalrecall.filez.com [207.110.26.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA26398 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:55:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from josh@totalrecall.filez.com) Received: (qmail 9994 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Aug 1998 00:54:32 -0000 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:54:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Josh Beck X-Sender: josh@totalrecall.filez.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: booting off of a slice other than "a" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I recently juggled some filesystems on a machine (3.0-980520-SNAP) and because I'm relatively new to FreeBSD, didn't think about the fact that disklabel defaults to slice e for data partitions, but booteasy wants to boot off of slice a. So now I have my / partition on 0:sd(0,e) instead of 0:sd(0,a), and I don't really have the option to change that now (machine is in production). So, is there a way to kick booteasy and make it boot from slice e instead of a, or is there a slick way to relabel partitions to make e suddenly become a? I found relatively little booteasy documentation... some stuff in /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot or something like that, and the nextboot man page... I played a bit with sticking stuff in /boot.config, but it seems that can't help because it has to know what slice to find /boot.config on. nextboot didn't seem to help either. If anyone has any recommendations, I'd love some help! Thanks. Josh Beck josh@zcompany.com =========================================================================== http://www.filez.com - Web's largest software search site (75M files!) http://www.mp3.com - #1 music site on the web, ultimate MP3 resource! http://www.websitez.com - Find domain names easier & faster than whois! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message