Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:40:22 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Igor Ignatovich <IGORIG@amdocs.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: root FS mounting by kernel? Message-ID: <20000614214022.D252@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <1FE7ADA9E7A1D111B88700805FEB08C901C23384@haifamail.amdocs.com>; from IGORIG@amdocs.com on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:00:15PM %2B0200 References: <1FE7ADA9E7A1D111B88700805FEB08C901C23384@haifamail.amdocs.com>
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:00:15PM +0200, Igor Ignatovich wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I added new partition to my FreeBSD-4.0 box. I transferred(by dump &
> restore)
> root( '/' ) partition to the new drive and installed bootstrap there. So I
> can boot now
> from this new partition. The problem is that kernel still mounts my
> previous device
> as root(' / ') FS despite I changed fstab apropriately(because the mount
> performed somewhere before,
> when kernel is being loaded).
> Pls., give me advice.
It is specified in the boot process. Set the 'root_disk_unit' and
'rootdev' appropriately. See /boot/default/loader.conf for the proper
formatting. Put the changes in /boot/loader.conf (do not modify
anything in the default/ directory).
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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