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Subject: Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system
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Frank Wissmann wrote:
> FreeBSD boots by default from the a-partition and IMK you can't change
> this. Try to setup your rootdev as disk0s1a instead of disk0s1d and it
> will work.
>
> Regards
>
> Frank
>
How can I do that? When I use sysinstall to create my partitions it
automatically create's it as da0s1d. If you ment to modify my
root_dev="disk0s1b"  (in /boot/default/loader.conf) back to it's default
value (an a-partition) Then how is this going to help?

Thank you,
Best regards,
Gabriel