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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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