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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:29:51 -0800
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: David Schultz <vvortex1@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Fun with slices and partitions
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:05:47PM -0800, David Schultz wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just did a bit of rearranging of my partitions to get my FreeBSD slice
> from one end of a drive to another. I did this by creating another slice on
> the other end of the drive, partitioning it, and slowly migrating all of the
> original /usr, /, and /var slices to the new drive with dumpfs piped to
> restore. My /etc/fstab has been updated accordingly, but I have a bit of a
> problem.
> 
> When I boot, boot2 can't find the root partition and dumps me at an
> unhelpful prompt that isn't documented very well in the manual.

man boot

> My root
> partition is currently ad1s1e, whereas it used to be ad1s3a. However, ad1s3
> does not exist anymore. Of course I can boot by typing 'ad(1,e)' at the
> boot2 prompt, but it is necessary for this machine to be able to boot
> without user intervention. Does anyone know how I can get boot2 to find
> ad1s1e automatically or fix the disk labels so boot2 can find it where it
> is?
> 
> So far, I've tried using disklabel to relabel partition e to a. Of course
> this fails because root is always mounted. Hmm... boot floppy? Please let me
> know if you have any suggestions, and thanks in advance.

Yes, change your root partition to 'a.' And see boot0cfg(8).
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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