From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 10 22:56:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3A616A41F for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:56:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-hackers.e471b2@mired.org) Received: from delight.idiom.com (outbound.idiom.com [216.240.47.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A38A43D45 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:56:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-hackers.e471b2@mired.org) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by delight.idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED13F224D24 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (mwm@idiom [216.240.32.1]) by idiom.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j8AMtocR096746 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:55:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-hackers.e471b2@mired.org) Received: (qmail 46863 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Sep 2005 22:56:18 -0000 Received: by localhost.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1001); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:56:18 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17187.25746.157318.605055@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:56:18 -0400 To: Daniel Gerzo In-Reply-To: <1494707485.20050911002426@rulez.sk> References: <1567405732.20050910234315@rulez.sk> <17187.23528.480983.263363@bhuda.mired.org> <1494707485.20050911002426@rulez.sk> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 17) "Jumbo Shrimp" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) From: Mike Meyer Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: Forcing boot to seek for files on other parition then `a' X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:56:03 -0000 In <1494707485.20050911002426@rulez.sk>, Daniel Gerzo typed: > Ahoj omyl Mike, > > Sunday, September 11, 2005, 12:19:20 AM, si odoslal: > > > Daniel Gerzo 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 :/ Sorry about that - I didn't read your message carefully enough. > 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. Well, if you can get the disk someplace where you could install a recompiled boot loader, then you can use bsdlabel on it. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.