Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 18:41:04 +0530 From: Moheed Ahmad <moheed.ms@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to make default root as partition-d (ada0s1d) Message-ID: <CADR6yDEviHgGSZ7QFXYQQvfvGyfe5yBZAeZQ7qO9-814csdZxg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello there, I am trying to have two different version of bsd on a single slice. I've an MBR partitioned 2T disk with single slice. I've divided disk to 4 slices. ada0s1a [9.x bsd here] ada0s1b [swap] ada0s1d [want 11.x bsd here] ada0s1e [data partition] Installation goes fine and things boot fine. However, everytime I boot, default boot happens from 0:ad(1,a)/boot/loader. How can this default be changed so that default boot happens from ):ad(1,d). I went through the boot-mgr, boot0, bootcfg, nextboot docs It says 'a' is treated as traditional root. and /boot/boot code always tries to load loader from 'a'. For the gpt-scheme there are attributes bootme/bootonce etc that can mark a partition to be booted by default everytime. However for MBR(with disklabels), I don't see any option available. [Other than possibly modify boot/boot code to treat 'd' as default /. -- -Moheed "I am who I am, no matter where I am or who I am with."
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