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On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 05:48, Nicholas Blasgen wrote:
> Okay, good.  FreeBSD starts to boot.  Loads the kernel fine, seems to do
> everything fine, but comes to some issues where I need to specify the main
> disk.  So I tell it ufs:ad0s4a.  Machine boots up in single user mode, I
> mount all the extra drives it didn't load.  Everything seems fine as far =
as
> I can tell but the boot wasn't multiuser because of some bad configuratio=
n.
> So I decided to issues the boot0cfg command again and reboot.
>
> -- THE REAL QUESTION --
>
> Now I'm back with the FreeBSD block being unbootable.  So I know nothing
> about how /boot/ configurations work.  Could someone tell me how to edit
> files or an application to do so for the files in /boot/ so I can tell
> boo0cfg that I want FreeBSD (/dev/ad0s4) to be a bootable partition?  I
> think that'd solve everything.

Try boot0cfg -Bv -o packet ad0

As to why it can't find root.. That depends on your fstab matching what is=
=20
actually on the disk.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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