From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 16:13:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E52E14C81 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:13:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12391; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:10:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Shawn Leas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stupid question In-Reply-To: <19990408235639.A25082@ixion.honeywell.com> 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 On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Shawn Leas wrote: > I'm a little new at the FBSD bootloader scheme. > Having said that, I cpio'ed my / over to a different > partition with softupdates enabled. > > Now, I need to have a bootloader on wd0s4e, and > I want it to boot wd0s4e:/kernel by default. > > Right now, I have to boot the old root, interrupt it, > and set currdev=disk1s4e, then boot. There's a neat file called /boot/boot.conf you stuff this into. See 'man boot' or 'man btx' for info. 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-questions" in the body of the message