Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:47:10 +0100 From: Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root filesystem Message-ID: <47Jn7s0jZ4z1ftWX@baobab.bilink.it> In-Reply-To: <47Jh0h1fbfz1ftWV@baobab.bilink.it> References: <47Jh0h1fbfz1ftWV@baobab.bilink.it>
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:55:38 +0100 Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it> wrote: > I know you can tell from which disk to boot at the > initial prompt by escaping to the prompt and setting a variable; can > this be saved for next boot? Apparently not. According to TFM, "gptboot searches through freebsd-ufs partitions in the GPT and selects one to boot based on the bootonce and bootme attributes. If neither attribute is found, /boot/gptboot boots from the first freebsd-ufs partition." So no way to make it boot from another disk. To achieve that I need a boot loader (such as grub), which would do the trick. A bit too much fuss. I think I will reformat the disk and partition it with a freebsd-boot partition, that would happily boot if I install the needed stages with gpart... Sorry for the noise, Luciano. -- /"\ /Via A. Salaino, 7 - 20144 Milano (Italy) \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / PHONE : +39 2 485781 FAX: +39 2 48578250 X AGAINST HTML MAIL / E-MAIL: posthamster@sublink.sublink.ORG / \ AND POSTINGS / WWW: http://www.lesassaie.IT/
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