From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 06:07:29 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 F3B8816A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 06:07:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from arnold.neland.dk (0x50c48aec.adsl-fixed.tele.dk [80.196.138.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A05943D49 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 06:07:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBNE7OFf007866; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:07:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:07:24 +0100 (CET) From: Leif Neland To: Harald Schmalzbauer In-Reply-To: <200312231500.28152@harrymail> Message-ID: <20031223150352.M7208@arnold.neland.dk> References: <027f01c3c8a8$719c8590$6705a8c0@gina> <200312231500.28152@harrymail> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 14:07:29 -0000 On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2003 17:27, Leif Neland wrote: > > 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\" > If the bootloader will not accept 2:ad(2,e), I don't think it matters what I compile into the kernel. > AFAIK it should bee possible to also change the root device in 1st bootstage > See man (8) boot I used disklabel to rename the slices, so now I have booted from the new root. Leif