Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:13:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Josh Beck <josh@zcompany.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting off of a slice other than "a" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808061413100.28098-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980805174920.9896B-100000@totalrecall.filez.com >
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On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Josh Beck wrote: > 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? Drop a boot.config file on the top level of the a partition, and put sd(0,e)/kernel in it as the only line. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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