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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


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