Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:54:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Josh Beck <josh@zcompany.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: booting off of a slice other than "a" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980805174920.9896B-100000@totalrecall.filez.com>
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Hello, I recently juggled some filesystems on a machine (3.0-980520-SNAP) and because I'm relatively new to FreeBSD, didn't think about the fact that disklabel defaults to slice e for data partitions, but booteasy wants to boot off of slice a. So now I have my / partition on 0:sd(0,e) instead of 0:sd(0,a), and I don't really have the option to change that now (machine is in production). So, is there a way to kick booteasy and make it boot from slice e instead of a, or is there a slick way to relabel partitions to make e suddenly become a? I found relatively little booteasy documentation... some stuff in /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot or something like that, and the nextboot man page... I played a bit with sticking stuff in /boot.config, but it seems that can't help because it has to know what slice to find /boot.config on. nextboot didn't seem to help either. If anyone has any recommendations, I'd love some help! Thanks. Josh Beck josh@zcompany.com =========================================================================== http://www.filez.com - Web's largest software search site (75M files!) http://www.mp3.com - #1 music site on the web, ultimate MP3 resource! http://www.websitez.com - Find domain names easier & faster than whois! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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