Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 01:36:54 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Jesse <j@lumiere.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting default boot partition Message-ID: <14843.54166.514593.518260@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010281754030.1282-100000@localhost> References: <14843.14493.986631.472285@guru.mired.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010281754030.1282-100000@localhost>
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Jesse writes: > > Jesse writes: > > > Hi, > > > Anyone know how I can change my default boot partion to ad0e? > > Yes - go through the entire boot sequence and change all the places > > where it assumes that the boot partition is a to be e. > What do you mean by go through ahd change it? Just what I said - you need to find everywhere where it's set to a, and change it to e. > I can't find anywhere I can specify what the boot partition should be. I don't believe it's something you can specify. Therefore, you need to do it in the sources. > > Since you don't have an an a partition, it's probably easier to use > > disklabel to add an a partition that's a copy of the e partition, and > > then use the (new) a partition. That's what I wound up doing, anyway. > I ended up simply relabeling e as a and it worked, but I'd like to know > for future reference when I *do* have an a partition. Well, I'd recommend you avoid that situation. If you do get into it, you can just swap the a partition and the "real" boot partition. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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