Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:16:33 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from wrong disk Message-ID: <ade45ae90910151916p62db8014r2c48d36ea0b2eef3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca> References: <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca>
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On 10/15/09, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> 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? Probably because ad12's /etc/fstab tell it to mount ad12's filesystems. rewriting mbrs and stuff probably won't help. check your fstab.
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