From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 7: 9:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.sc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B8237B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:09:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com ([24.88.102.101]) by mail8.sc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Sun, 26 Nov 2000 10:08:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 21:51:38 -0400 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: Doug White Cc: Shawn Leas , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stupid question Message-ID: <19990409215138.A3005@dmaddox.conterra.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@conterra.com References: <19990408235639.A25082@ixion.honeywell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 04:10:53PM -0700 Content-Length: 795 Lines: 20 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 04:10:53PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Shawn Leas wrote: > > > I'm a little new at the FBSD bootloader scheme. > > Having said that, I cpio'ed my / over to a different > > partition with softupdates enabled. > > > > Now, I need to have a bootloader on wd0s4e, and > > I want it to boot wd0s4e:/kernel by default. > > > > Right now, I have to boot the old root, interrupt it, > > and set currdev=disk1s4e, then boot. > > There's a neat file called /boot/boot.conf you stuff this into. See 'man > boot' or 'man btx' for info. Don't do that. /boot/boot.conf is deprecated. Use /boot/loader.rc instead. If it's a -current system, the mechanism has changed considerably, and you should have /boot/loader.conf.local that handles this type of thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message