From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 30 18:21: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A716B14E20 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:20:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA41570; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:20:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:20:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Guido van Rooij Cc: FreeBSD-hackers Subject: Re: booting from a second slice In-Reply-To: <19990930215402.A449@gvr.gvr.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Guido van Rooij wrote: > > what is the correct way (if at all) to boot off a second FreeBSD > slice, given the following fdisk table (see below)? > I thought that the three stage boot would make such a think possible. > F2 in the boot manager does not work, but I would have thought that > the loader would enable me to say currdev=disk1s2a: set curdev=disk1s2a You may need to force the root directory too with set rootdev=disk1s2a Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message