From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 14:14:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04969 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04860 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA04196; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:13:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:13:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Josh Beck cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting off of a slice other than "a" 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 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