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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
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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.


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