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Date:      Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:10:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Stupid question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091609550.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990408235639.A25082@ixion.honeywell.com>

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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
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