From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 13 15:25:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tardis.mx.com.au (tardis.mx.com.au [203.34.34.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBBE153D9 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:25:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from justin@tardis.mx.com.au) Received: from localhost (justin@localhost) by tardis.mx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01089 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:55:40 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from justin@tardis.mx.com.au) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:55:39 +1030 (CST) From: Justin Hawkins To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't boot to partition 'e' Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My home gateway system has recently had a hard drive upgrade - I tossed out two old 500Mb disks and put in a single 12Gb disk. I used cpio to copy all the files in across, and in the process my root partition is now partition 'e'. Everything works fine, except for booting: F1 . . . FreeBSD Default: F? Invalid partition Invalid partition No /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:wd(0,a)/kernel boot: At this point I need to type 'wd(0,e)' to get it to boot. Since this is a headless box this is a rather large inconvenience! I understand I need to change a setting somewhere, recompile the boot loader and reinstall it, but all the boot related documentation I come across I find very confusing. A step by step guide which showed what each stage loader actually *looked* like would be nice so I knew where I was up to, but enough moaning :-) Can anyone give me a pointer in the right direction? Alternatively I would be perfectly happy if there was a way to setup a boot floppy to do this, that I could just leave sitting in the drive. The disk is totally dedicated to FreeBSD. If I remember rightly I set it to 'dangerously dedicated', but I'm not 100% on that. bash-2.03$ df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s1e 508126 240180 227296 51% / /dev/wd0s1g 15649162 5110364 9286866 35% /usr /dev/wd0s1f 2977214 31256 2707782 1% /var procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc bash-2.03$ uname -a FreeBSD tardis.mx.com.au 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #4: Thu Nov 25 18:43:20 CST 1999 root@tardis.mx.com.au:/usr/src/sys/compile/TARDIS i386 - Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message