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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:29 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: booting from wrong disk
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910151219030.78733@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca>
References:  <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca>

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, PJ wrote:

> While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed
> up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a
> dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as
> ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise...
> #df shows we have been booted from ad12 and all partitions are ad12....
> Booting from ad12s1a gives exactly the same results.

The /etc/fstab from ad12 will point at ad12.  After restoring on ad4, 
did you edit fstab to now have ad4 entries?

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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