Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:16:49 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@wilbury.sk> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [SOLVED] Re: Forcing boot to seek for files on other parition then `a' Message-ID: <406058807.20050911141649@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <1567405732.20050910234315@rulez.sk> References: <1567405732.20050910234315@rulez.sk>
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This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. ------------721DC16E37777FAF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello hackers, Saturday, September 10, 2005, 11:43:15 PM, I wrote: > Hello hackers, <snip> > Ok, I will describe the main problem here; > According to the boot(8) manual the automatic boot will attempt to > load /boot/loader from partition `a'. But there's no such partition > and I have /boot/loader under the `e' partition. I know only one and > the only normal way how to force to use `e' partition. This is done > throught the boot2 stage of boot process, when one need to manually > type 0:ad(0,e)/boot/loader to the console so boot process will be > able to use needed utilities. The main question is: > How to force boot procedure to automatically seek boot images on > other partition then `a', let's say on `e' one. Okay, with help of simon@ I've successfully hacked the boot2.c code so the boot process is seeking for boot images at the right place. Modicifaction I've done: sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c around line 306 on RELENG_5 in the load() function I've added after declaration of variables: dsk.part =3D 4; /* for partition d dsk.part=3D3, for e =3D4,f =3D5 and so */ then in sys/boot/i386/boot2/ # make obj && make depend && make && make install and then # bsdlabel -B ad0s1 this does the trick. --=20 Sincerely, Daniel Gerzo ------------721DC16E37777FAF--
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