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Cc: Frank Wissmann <frank.wissmann41@web.de>,
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Subject: Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system
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Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
> 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
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I get what happened... when I created my partitions, I had my old disk
installed, since I was booting from it, so the a-partition was already
taken, now that it is gone, I would have to rename it, is that possible?

Best regards,
Gabriel