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Date:      Thu, 29 Jul 1999 18:18:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      David Coder <dacoder@dcoder.com>
To:        Todd Meister <todd@lmi.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting from da0s1e
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907291816530.10123-100000@doc.dcoder.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990729150915.todd@lmi.net>

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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Todd Meister wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to get a hard disk to boot from / mounted on da0s1e, rather than
> the typical da0s1a.  I tried putting the line:
> 0:da(0,e)/kernel
> 
> in /boot.config, but that did nothing.
> 
> I recompiled the kernel, changing 
> 
> config          kernel  root on da0
> 
> to 
> 
> config          kernel  root on da0s1e
> 
> but nothing changed.  It still uses 0:da(0,a)/kernel as default.
> 
> Is there something very obvious that I'm missing?  

Yes, that /dev/da0s1e mounts by default on /var.  There's nothing on that
device that is useful for booting.

dc



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