From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 06:00:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 421C316A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 06:00:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-in.m-online.net (svr8.m-online.net [62.245.150.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BBF43D41 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 06:00:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from h@schmalzbauer.de) Received: from mail.m-online.net (svr14.m-online.net [192.168.3.144]) by svr8.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1506A540F; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:00:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de (ppp-82-135-0-74.mnet-online.de [82.135.0.74]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D711527B9B; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:00:28 +0100 (CET) From: Harald Schmalzbauer To: "Leif Neland" , Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:00:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <027f01c3c8a8$719c8590$6705a8c0@gina> In-Reply-To: <027f01c3c8a8$719c8590$6705a8c0@gina> X-Birthday: 06 Oktober 1972 X-Name: Harald Schmalzbauer X-Phone1: +49 (0) 163 555 3237 X-Phone2: +49 (0) 89 18947781 X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-Country: Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_8pE6/7MpoLI1Cce"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200312231500.28152@harrymail> Subject: Re: Must root be on slice 'a'? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:00:32 -0000 --Boundary-02=_8pE6/7MpoLI1Cce Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 22 December 2003 17:27, Leif Neland wrote: > http://geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/freebsd.htm > writes this:To install a new FreeBSD system, you must create a new '/' file > system at a minimum. If you do this in a slice with an existing '/' > partition the previous system will become inaccessible. You can normally > tell that there is a previous '/' mounted in the current slice, if any > existing partition name ends in an 'a'. > > Does this imply that I must rename my slices, that I can't boot from > /dev/ad1s3e ? Right. Root always must be label a. You don't have to change slices. But you can compile something different in the kernel: options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da0s2e\" AFAIK it should bee possible to also change the root device in 1st bootstage See man (8) boot -Harry > > Leif > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --Boundary-02=_8pE6/7MpoLI1Cce Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/6Ep8Bylq0S4AzzwRAqVhAJ9VVozO1/poAYTGzSg6hHdlnY8hJgCeJctq ZSBvxEENvqznfCgaKV4S02A= =78mv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_8pE6/7MpoLI1Cce--