Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 04:08:31 -0800 From: "Noah" <admin2@enabled.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Noah <admin2@enabled.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup drive bootabel Message-ID: <20040105120643.M537@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <20031221004520.GB22276@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20031112154647.M33110@enabled.com> <3FB25926.2000109@rtl.org> <20031112171905.M63476@enabled.com> <20031112182055.GC24384@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031112223108.M65151@enabled.com> <20031113100504.GB33477@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031126143823.M26427@enabled.com> <20031126152833.GA7575@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031220200516.M74299@enabled.com> <20031221004520.GB22276@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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> > Looks OK to me -- you have got backups of anything important on that > disk haven't you? This sort of operation has a high risk of trashing > the drive contents if you don't get things quite right. Thank you so much Matthew, I just did an ls of the drive on da1. can I assume that the contents of this drive did not get trashed? thanks so much for all your assistance. excellent responses. Happy New Year, - Noah > > Yes, you'll need to set the slice (da1s1) bootable if you want this > as an alternate boot device. That shouldn't affect the default auto > boot process performed by the boot loader, unless you interrupt the boot > process and change the device selection there manually. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 > 1TH UK
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