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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:59:29 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: booting from wrong disk
Message-ID:  <20091015195929.1ae99ba2.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca>
References:  <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca>

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:36:56 -0400, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> wrote:
> I imagine it is something in the boot files... but how to fix that?

The easiest way is to prepare the disk with sysinstall. The
steps usually involve:
	1. creation of slice, usually covering whole disk
	2. marking the slice "active"
	3. installing the standard MBR
	4. partitioning the slice as intended
	5. format the partitions

And as I said, sysinstall's slice and partition editor are
often my tools of choice, allthough you can do all this with
the correct command line tools (which you obviously do when
scripting automated processes).


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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