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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>
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Subject: Re: booting from wrong disk
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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).


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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
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