Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 01:10:50 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@wilbury.sk> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-hackers.e471b2@mired.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re[4]: Forcing boot to seek for files on other parition then `a' Message-ID: <1744063854.20050911011050@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <17187.25746.157318.605055@bhuda.mired.org> References: <1567405732.20050910234315@rulez.sk> <17187.23528.480983.263363@bhuda.mired.org> <1494707485.20050911002426@rulez.sk> <17187.25746.157318.605055@bhuda.mired.org>
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This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. ------------2C115147D6CCFC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re Mike, Sunday, September 11, 2005, 12:56:18 AM, you wrote: > Daniel Gerzo <danger@wilbury.sk> typed: >> Ahoj omyl Mike, >>=20 >> Sunday, September 11, 2005, 12:19:20 AM, si odoslal: >>=20 >> > Daniel Gerzo <danger@wilbury.sk> typed: >> >> How to force boot procedure to automatically seek boot images on >> >> other partition then `a', let's say on `e' one. >>=20 >> > If you google the archives at FreeBSD, you'll find that this is a >> > PITA, assuming it's possible at all. No particular reason for it, just >> > not something anyone has ever wanted to do. Someone may have fixed >> > this since the last time I saw it discussed, but I wouldn't bet on it. >>=20 >> > So the fix is to boot on the fixit CDROM, fire up bsdlabel on your >> > disk, and change the "e" to an "a", and boot off the a partition. >>=20 >> oh, you know that dedicated boxes doesn't have CD-ROM and FreeBSD ISO >> in it, and I don't have a roam KVM available? Also, there's no netboot >> server available :/ > Sorry about that - I didn't read your message carefully enough. >> So maybe I could hack sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c somehow?, but I'm not >> a C knowledgeable and it's little bit mess for me. > Well, if you can get the disk someplace where you could install a > recompiled boot loader, then you can use bsdlabel on it. Well, I actually can install a recombiled boot loader, can't I? I have sources and I can use bsdlabel -B ad0s1 then. but now the question is: which changes do I need to proceed so that the boot(8) will seek for boot images in `e' partition? > <mike --=20 Regards, Daniel Gerzo ------------2C115147D6CCFC--
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