Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:07:24 +0100 (CET) From: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Must root be on slice 'a'? Message-ID: <20031223150352.M7208@arnold.neland.dk> In-Reply-To: <200312231500.28152@harrymail> References: <027f01c3c8a8$719c8590$6705a8c0@gina> <200312231500.28152@harrymail>
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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
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