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Date:      Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:35:41 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Jesse <j@lumiere.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: setting default boot partition
Message-ID:  <14843.14493.986631.472285@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <73243859@toto.iv>

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Jesse writes:
> Hi,
> Anyone know how I can change my default boot partion to ad0e?

Yes - go through the entire boot sequence and change all the places
where it assumes that the boot partition is a to be e.

> Currently my system appears to only make it to second stage bootloader and
> tries to startup with
> 	0:ad(0,a)/kernel
> I don't have an 'a' partition though. I can boot by typing
> 0:ad(0,e)/kernel but obviously that's no good for unattended reboots.
> 
> So, back to the original question. How can I c hange the default boot
> partition?

See the above.

Since you don't have an an a partition, it's probably easier to use
disklabel to add an a partition that's a copy of the e partition, and
then use the (new) a partition. That's what I wound up doing, anyway.

	<mike



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