Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 14:58:58 GMT From: Marian Cerny<jojo@matfyz.cz> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/112305: Mistake with boot.conf in Handbook, section 19.4 RAID1 - Mirroring Message-ID: <200705011458.l41EwwCP074620@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200705011510.l41FA3MI024045@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 112305 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Mistake with boot.conf in Handbook, section 19.4 RAID1 - Mirroring >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue May 01 15:10:03 GMT 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Marian Cerny >Release: FreeBSD 6.2R >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD claire 6.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr 26 17:55:55 UTC 2007 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 >Description: In the following paragraph of Handbook (section 19.4 RAID1 - Mirroring), boot.conf is used instead of boot.config. Commnads that follows use the correct boot.config. This file will “help” the system BIOS boot the correct drive: # echo "1:da(1,a)/boot/loader" > /boot.config # echo "1:da(1,a)/boot/loader" > /mnt/boot.config >How-To-Repeat: See section 19.4 RAID1 - Mirroring of the Handbook. >Fix: Change the sentence: Now create a boot.conf file on both the current and new root partitions. to: Now create a boot.config file on both the current and new root partitions. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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