From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 22:50:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E8A16A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:50:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A998243D45 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:50:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jAGMo9Jh019852 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:50:10 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20051116155424.0262d368@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:49:48 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: help re-writing boot record X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:50:14 -0000 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