From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 21:44: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124CE37B6DA for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from pool0566.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (pool1260.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.254.240]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA13266; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:43:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by pool0566.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01883; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:40:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:40:22 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Igor Ignatovich Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: root FS mounting by kernel? Message-ID: <20000614214022.D252@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <1FE7ADA9E7A1D111B88700805FEB08C901C23384@haifamail.amdocs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <1FE7ADA9E7A1D111B88700805FEB08C901C23384@haifamail.amdocs.com>; from IGORIG@amdocs.com on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:00:15PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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