From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 15:19:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA06816A403 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 15:19:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailing_lists@evotex.ch) Received: from mail2.heig-vd.ch (mail2.heig-vd.ch [193.134.216.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C34E13C44C for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 15:19:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailing_lists@evotex.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.heig-vd.ch (8.13.7/8.13.1/MailGateway 2.01) with ESMTP id l49ErHx7023675; Wed, 9 May 2007 16:53:17 +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new from YCOM SA at heig-vd.ch Received: from mail2.heig-vd.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.heig-vd.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id kQsb-JNo1vjp; Wed, 9 May 2007 16:53:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from EINT11.einet.ad.eivd.ch ([10.192.41.28]) by mail2.heig-vd.ch (8.13.7/8.13.1/MailGateway 2.01) with ESMTP id l49ErFqv023672; Wed, 9 May 2007 16:53:15 +0200 Received: from [10.192.66.123] ([10.192.66.123]) by EINT11.einet.ad.eivd.ch with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 9 May 2007 16:53:14 +0200 Message-ID: <4641E05A.1090901@evotex.ch> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 16:53:14 +0200 From: Gabriel Rossetti User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070304) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Zbyslaw References: <46418067.4090406@evotex.ch> <4641AC29.1090301@web.de> <4641B3D1.1030605@evotex.ch> <4641C1DB.700@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4641D15E.6070901@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <4641D15E.6070901@dial.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 May 2007 14:53:14.0893 (UTC) FILETIME=[C59BABD0:01C79249] Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 15:19:18 -0000 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > >>> How can I do that? When I use sysinstall to create my partitions it >>> automatically create's it as da0s1d. >> Use: >> >> bsdlabel -e da0s1 >> >> > There's also a trick you can use in sysinstall. It will only ever > assign an "a" partition to /. So if you have some partition which you > know will act as a root partition, but isn't actually going to be one > right now, *lie*. Set the mount point to / and get assigned e.g. > da0s1a then *change* the mountpoint with M (I think) back to whatever > you're calling this partition right now e.g. /root2. Make sure you > turn off softupdates (S?) if changing the mountpoint turns them back > on. Once the a partition has been assigned, it won't be re-assigned > just because you changed the mountpoint. > > Of course, this means that you have to assign all the pseudo-root > partitions before you assign any real root partition otherwise > sysinstall will likely complain about the duplicate mountpoint. (Or > change the real root mountpoint, do your pseudo roots, then change the > real root back to /). > > Of course, it doesn't help you now, but if there's a next time... > > --Alex > > > Thank you Alex, yes, like you said, there's always a next time :-) Gabriel