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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:13:08 -0400
From:      PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Subject:   Re: booting from wrong disk
Message-ID:  <4AD74A14.9010403@videotron.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca>
References:  <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca>

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PJ wrote:
> While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed
> up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a
> dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as
> ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise...
> #df shows we have been booted from ad12 and all partitions are ad12....
> Booting from ad12s1a gives exactly the same results.
> So, how can I get ad4s1a to boot from ad4?
> I imagine it is something in the boot files... but how to fix that?
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add another thought...

If I change the mbr on the ad12 then mount ad4s1a to /mnt copy
/mnt/boot/boot0 to /boot/boot0.tmp and then copy the modified
/boot/boot0 (for ad4) back to /mnt/boot/ and then umount ad4s1a --- I
should be ok, OK? Have I got it?



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