From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 28 17:55:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from leaf.lumiere.net (leaf.lumiere.net [208.44.192.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE26837B479 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 17:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by leaf.lumiere.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 48AB6F0E0; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 17:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 17:55:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Jesse X-Sender: j@localhost To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting default boot partition In-Reply-To: <14843.14493.986631.472285@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. What do you mean by go through ahd change it? I can't find anywhere I can specify what the boot partition should be. > 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. I ended up simply relabeling e as a and it worked, but I'd like to know for future reference when I *do* have an a partition. Thanks, --- Jesse "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message