Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:57:59 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> To: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to boot from a slice other than "a"? Message-ID: <20060112225638.J1494@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <20060112134825.Q53590@wolf.pjkh.com> References: <20060112134825.Q53590@wolf.pjkh.com>
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 248M 180M 48M 79% / > /dev/da0s1h 14G 496M 13G 4% /mnt > > /dev/da0s1h has an exact copy of /dev/da0s1a using dump/restore. > > I want to configure things so that the next time I reboot it will > automatically boot from /dev/da0s1h without me having to do anything (since > it's remote I can't interrupt the boot process). > > I know I need to modify fstab on da0s1h. And if I was on the console I'd > interrupt the boot process and type in 0:da(0,h)/boot/loader, but I'm not. are you actually interested of running /boot/loader from partition h or mounting root at /dev/da0s1h if second - add: vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:da0s1h" if first - i don't know :)
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