Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:49:48 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: help re-writing boot record Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20051116155424.0262d368@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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I have read the handbook and man pages but found some inconsistencies, so
that has prompted my question to the list. Also, I am being careful in
needing to re-write the boot record because this is an older system that
won't boot FreeBSD correctly from CD-ROM or from floppy (it will boot from
floppy but cannot find the floppy drive it booted from, a strange weird
problem from the BIOS.)
I have a system running FreeBSD 4.11 Release. This system has 2 SCSI drives.
At one time this system was a dual boot system, that has since been
dedicated to only FreeBSD. I needed more space in the root partition and
have utilized the other OS partitions re-labeling them as FreeBSD and doing
newfs on them, and moving all the files. The system will boot from the new
root partition, but not automatically.
The new root partition is on:
/dev/da1s1e
I have added a boot.config file, but that hasn't helped. My boot.config
file contains:
da(1,e)/kernel
When I need to reboot this system, I have to type in this at the boot
prompt when the system complains it cannot find the boot device:
da(1,e)/kernel
to get the system to boot.
So, what do I need to do to re-label the disk(s) to get the system to boot
automatically?
Thanks for any help.
-Derek
derek@computinginnovations.com
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