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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