Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:24:26 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@wilbury.sk> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Forcing boot to seek for files on other parition then `a' Message-ID: <1494707485.20050911002426@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <17187.23528.480983.263363@bhuda.mired.org> References: <1567405732.20050910234315@rulez.sk> <17187.23528.480983.263363@bhuda.mired.org>
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This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. ------------181B2724B30E2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ahoj omyl Mike, Sunday, September 11, 2005, 12:19:20 AM, si odoslal: > Daniel Gerzo <danger@wilbury.sk> typed: >> How to force boot procedure to automatically seek boot images on >> other partition then `a', let's say on `e' one. > If you google the archives at FreeBSD, you'll find that this is a > PITA, assuming it's possible at all. No particular reason for it, just > not something anyone has ever wanted to do. Someone may have fixed > this since the last time I saw it discussed, but I wouldn't bet on it. > So the fix is to boot on the fixit CDROM, fire up bsdlabel on your > disk, and change the "e" to an "a", and boot off the a partition. oh, you know that dedicated boxes doesn't have CD-ROM and FreeBSD ISO in it, and I don't have a roam KVM available? Also, there's no netboot server available :/ So maybe I could hack sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c somehow?, but I'm not a C knowledgeable and it's little bit mess for me. > <mike --=20 Sincerely, Daniel Gerzo ------------181B2724B30E2--
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