Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 21:51:38 -0400 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stupid question Message-ID: <19990409215138.A3005@dmaddox.conterra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091609550.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 04:10:53PM -0700 References: <19990408235639.A25082@ixion.honeywell.com> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091609550.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 04:10:53PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > 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. Don't do that. /boot/boot.conf is deprecated. Use /boot/loader.rc instead. If it's a -current system, the mechanism has changed considerably, and you should have /boot/loader.conf.local that handles this type of thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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