Date: 03 May 1999 00:42:42 +0200 From: Eric Jacoboni <jaco@titine.fr.eu.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to change the / partition ? Message-ID: <85iuab3xgd.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org>
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Hi,
I'm afraid i've made a _big_ mistake today :
My previous running 3.1-STABLE config :
/dev/wd0s1a was /mnt/dos
/dev/wd0s2a was /
/dev/wd0s2b was the swap partition
/dev/wd0s3e was /usr/src
/dev/wd1s4 was /usr/local
Yes, i know : "when ain't broken, don't fix it!" but my / partition
was 97% used so i decided to destroy the dos partition in order to use
it as /usr/home...
So, i've used /stand/systinstall, delete the wd0s1a partition and
recreate it with UFS type.
In order to verify all was ok before moving my old /home data to
wd0s1a, i first reboot my machine... But, no way to boot again :(
To try to fix the problem, i've run an install process to install a
minimal system on /dev/wd0s1a and i've verified the others partitions
are still there... What i want to do now is to fix the pb in order to
boot from /dev/wd0s2a, as before...
BTW : i use LILO as boot loader and my /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
install=/boot/boot.b
append = "mem=96M"
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
prompt
image=/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34
label=oldlinux
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
other=/dev/hda2
label=bsd
table=/dev/hda
I've rerun /sbin/lilo from my Linux system in order to update the MBR
with the new partition scheme, but it doesn't change anything...
So my question : what file(s) are to be changed in order to boot
kernel from /dev/wd0s2a ? what program to use to fix it ?
I promise as soon my config runs again to learn by heart the BSD
slices configuration ;-)
I don't know if that helps, but before my mistake, i was able to
access the BSD partition with this Linux fstab entry :
/dev/hda5 /mnt/bsd ufs ufstype=44bsd 0 0
Now, it's impossible : i don't _really_ understand why this manip on
/dev/wd0s1a has done such a mess...
Here the Linux's fdisk output :
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 150 302368+ a5 BSD/386
/dev/hda2 * 311 621 626976 a5 BSD/386
/dev/hda3 * 151 310 322560 a5 BSD/386
Thanks for your help,
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