Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:38:33 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nuno_Gon=E7alves?= <nuno@fccn.pt> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing boot partition Message-ID: <4773AAD9.806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <00fe01c84884$93ba1d30$1f2c88c1@corp.fccn.pt> References: <00fe01c84884$93ba1d30$1f2c88c1@corp.fccn.pt>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nuno Gonçalves wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I Have a FreeBSD booting ok. It?s FSTAB is like this: > > #Device MountPoint FStype Options > > /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw > > /dev/ad1s1a / ufs rw > > /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto > > /dev/ad1s2d /backup ufs rw > > > > When I boot the machine the boot manager shows me F1 and F2 to boot for. > > F1 brings me /dev/ad1s1a OK > > Still I want the machine to boot to /dev/ad1s2d > > This partition has a backup from another FreeBSD which I want to boot. > > > > To accomplish this, I need only to change FSTAB ? > > What changes should I do ? changing /dev/ad1s2d to /dev/ad1s2a ? I read that > a means boot root partition > > > > I tried to change FSTAB to > > #Device MountPoint FStype Options > > /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw > > #/dev/ad1s1a / ufs rw > > /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto > > /dev/ad1s2a /backup ufs rw > > > > And it hanged when I pressed F1 (could not mount the root partition :P ) > > > > Could you guys give any hint ? > > Sorry about this questions but I am a newbie to FreeBSD I forget the exact semantics but do a search for "installing freebsd in a usb stick" on google the reason for referring to this site is it shows how to duplicate what sysinstall does from the command line - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHc6rZzIOMjAek4JIRAoevAJ0WZzlRNgLiZeMzgS7RV2SS96kEBgCfe9PI tsmEoCTLlXPqg/FWYSEcukc= =oamg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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