From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 15:19:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from doc.dcoder.com (doc.dcoder.com [168.143.224.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3571151F5 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:19:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dacoder@dcoder.com) Received: from doc.dcoder.com (doc.dcoder.com [168.143.224.52]) by doc.dcoder.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10229; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 18:18:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dacoder@dcoder.com) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 18:18:43 -0400 (EDT) From: David Coder Reply-To: David Coder To: Todd Meister Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from da0s1e In-Reply-To: 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 On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Todd Meister wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get a hard disk to boot from / mounted on da0s1e, rather than > the typical da0s1a. I tried putting the line: > 0:da(0,e)/kernel > > in /boot.config, but that did nothing. > > I recompiled the kernel, changing > > config kernel root on da0 > > to > > config kernel root on da0s1e > > but nothing changed. It still uses 0:da(0,a)/kernel as default. > > Is there something very obvious that I'm missing? Yes, that /dev/da0s1e mounts by default on /var. There's nothing on that device that is useful for booting. dc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message