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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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