Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:00:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com> Cc: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stupid question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904121059110.3957-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990409215138.A3005@dmaddox.conterra.com>
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > 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. Stop changing the config filenames! Even I'm getting confused, much less the rest of the world! 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
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