Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:35:20 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Boot Loader Issue Message-ID: <28F9349A-834F-41B8-B889-DBDC92A18BFD@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306232135360.39334@wonkity.com> References: <DF35C473-CC17-4A32-9F28-B50F62F6C03A@lafn.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306232135360.39334@wonkity.com>
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On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: >=20 >> I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I = tried to reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to = mount from ufs:/dev/ada0p2. That won't work. >=20 > The loader should be getting that information from /etc/fstab. Have = the entries there been changed? That was the problem. The system used GPT before and I can't believe I = forgot to update fstab. That was a really dumb mistake. Thanks very = much. >=20 >> If I enter ufs:/dev/ada0s1a then the system boots fine and runs. I = need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. How do I = do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that. >=20 > = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html= has some information. >=20
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